[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-advocacy-groups-sue-to-freeze-ai-development-industry-wide":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},13012,"advocacy-groups-sue-to-freeze-ai-development-industry-wide","Advocacy Groups Sue to Freeze AI Development Industry-Wide","Four groups ask courts to halt AI development under a California law, as parents and schools press narrower fixes against OpenAI and Google.","Four advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on November 12 asking courts to freeze AI development across the whole industry, using a California consumer-protection statute as the hook.\n\nThe plaintiffs are Public Citizen, Irreplaceable Education Fund, Heat Initiative, and The Alliance for Secure AI. They argue that AI developers know of \"imminent and catastrophic risks to humanity\" and have admitted their products can cause harm. They also say California's Unfair Competition Law allows a court to halt further development. Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman said the suit asks the court \"to apply existing law and find the AI corporations' reckless practices unlawful and freeze further AI development.\"\n\nIt landed amid several other pressure points, each aimed at a specific target. Dozens of parent-advocates whose children were harmed sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings. The two states led a joint investigation into OpenAI's recent restructuring, and the parents want them to compel changes to its corporate structure and board membership. A family has also filed what is described as the first education-related suit of its kind, arguing that their teen's access to AI on school-issued Chromebooks endangered her mental health. And on November 11, a coalition of school and child safety groups led nationwide protests over Google's school policy. Google said its AI tools would be opt-in by default, but AI-powered Search cannot be turned off, which leaves districts with AI bans choosing between Search and their own rules. Advocates are urging those districts to cancel their Google contracts.\n\nThe scale of the asks differs sharply. A freeze is far bigger than anything the industry's own leaders have floated. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a three-point plan in September to \"pace the frontier\" of AI, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman later signaled support. Pacing and stopping are different requests. The letter and the school campaign each name a company and a concrete change, while the freeze suit asks a court to halt an entire industry under a state statute. That makes the suit the boldest filing of the week and, on its face, the hardest to grant.\n\nSome observers expect the incoming Democratic Congress to take a harder line on tech companies. 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