Four Nonprofits Sue OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX in California to Freeze Frontier AI Training

Four nonprofits — Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and Alliance for Secure AI — filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court on November 11 under California's Unfair Competition Law, asking the court to immediately freeze training and deployment of frontier models at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX's AI unit. The complaint cites the companies' own leaders' warnings that advanced AI could threaten humanity and requests an emergency injunction blocking next-generation models until the firms prove their systems are under human control. The plaintiffs also call for federal independent evaluators, strict liability, and a new independent AI regulator.