Florida authorities ask court to block OpenAI’s ChatGPT over safety issues
The Republican-led US state says the AI should be blocked from development until safeguards are put in place.
Authorities in Florida have asked a state court to stop OpenAI from further developing ChatGPT until it can impose a series of guardrails meant to protect users and the general public.
“Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it’s human. Stop selling it to kids,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a statement posted on X announcing the court case on Monday.
Uthmeier, a Republican, served as the chief of staff for fellow Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis until 2025.
Humanity could “lose control of the future of AI,” Altman told the United Nations Security Council last week alongside the heads of rival developers Anthropic and Hugging Face, who also called for authorities to step in to guide the industry.