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Leaders of major artificial intelligence companies called for coordinating the pace of AI development so safety measures can keep up with the technologies. After that, an antitrust lawsuit was filed against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google accusing them of illegally agreeing to slow AI development. Associated Press reported this on 20 September.
The discussion was initiated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. On 12 September he published a text calling for industry cooperation to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI systems and to strengthen safety measures. Amodei warned that without such a slowdown, AI could gain the ability to control a swarm of agents capable of taking over the entire internet within six to twelve months.
That same day OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis publicly voiced agreement with Amodei’s proposals. In particular, Altman said that OpenAI supports creating a federal framework with uniform AI safety requirements.
Amodei also acknowledged potential antitrust issues with such cooperation. He suggested that the U.S. government mediate discussions among companies or grant a limited antitrust exemption for certain safety-related talks.
On 18 September four users of the paid services ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They allege that the companies violated antitrust law by agreeing to coordinate a slowdown in AI development. The plaintiffs say this could reduce the value of paid subscriptions for consumers.
The plaintiffs do not object to individual companies independently slowing the development of their technologies for safety reasons. Their concern, they say, is specifically coordination among competitors.
The complaint also states that such coordination may have begun as early as July. The plaintiffs point to a statement signed by senior employees of several leading AI labs that spoke of intense competitive pressure that prevents companies from unilaterally slowing technology development.
AP notes that the allegation of an illegal agreement is currently the plaintiffs’ claim and must be resolved by the court.
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