A new antitrust lawsuit accuses major AI companies of illegally agreeing to slow development, as political figures call for regulation.
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Major AI companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google are facing a lawsuit that alleges they violated antitrust laws by making an illegal agreement to slow down the development of artificial intelligence. The suit, reported by AP News and ABC News, argues the coordinated slowdown constitutes an illegal agreement to restrain market competition.
Separately, insiders per the New York Post claim OpenAI and Anthropic deliberately oversold the severity of AI security breaches. The reporting alleges this was a strategic move to pressure federal regulators into establishing protective rules that would benefit the established companies and entrench their market position.
These corporate actions unfold as public concern over AI's trajectory intensifies in political circles. MIT physics professor and machine learning researcher Max Tegmark, who has warned about the danger of AI potentially overtaking human beings for over a decade, argues that without sufficient guardrails, AI systems will recursively improve themselves until they achieve superintelligence. Tegmark states this risk is now uniting unlikely political allies, including Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon.
The growing political pressure is leading to concrete policy proposals. Former President Donald Trump has vowed to create a dedicated ‘AI Force’ and appoint a czar to regulate the technology's development, responding to widespread calls for oversight.