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Florida AG Files for Temporary Injunction Against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman

Altman's own public calls to slow frontier AI development are now being used by a state attorney general as evidence that a court-ordered pause is justified.

Key Facts

  • Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in a Florida state court.
  • The injunction seeks to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models until an independent safety oversight system is in place.
  • OpenAI has not commented on the injunction request as of the time of writing.
  • The request follows a criminal investigation opened after the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, where the suspect was said to have used ChatGPT before the crime.

Reporting from 2 sources: GameBusiness.jp, GIGAZINE.

Florida AG Files for Temporary Injunction Against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, requesting a court order to halt development of new AI models until an independent safety oversight system is established. The filing, submitted to a Florida state court, also seeks to block minors from using ChatGPT, prohibit the company from describing its products as safe and reliable, ban AI from behaving as if it were human, and stop mechanisms that draw users into extended conversations. Uthmeier cited OpenAI's recent security disclosures and Altman's own public statements about slowing frontier model development as legal grounds, arguing that if Altman is serious about slowing development, he should support the request. OpenAI has not commented on this injunction. The request follows a criminal investigation opened after the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, where the suspect was said to have used ChatGPT before the crime.

The five demands in the filing are specific. Uthmeier posted them in a video on X, and they cover bans on training new models without independent safety guardrails, collecting data from minors, describing products as "safe, accurate, and reliable," AI behaving as if it were human, and mechanisms that pull users into conversations past dangerous states.

The injunction rests on OpenAI's recent security disclosures, including those that followed the Hugging Face incident, and on Altman's public calls to slow frontier model development. The filing argues that "the defendant himself has made public statements supporting this request. This is an unusual case for an injunction." Uthmeier put it directly: "If Mr. Altman was serious about his statement that he would 'slow down development,' he should support our request to the court." He also wrote that the harm is "imminent and real, and unless this court issues a stay during the trial, it will become irreversible."

OpenAI told Engadget when Florida opened its criminal investigation that "last year's mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this crime." It has not commented on the injunction. Canadian regulators asked OpenAI in February to review how it handles threats of harm after a Wall Street Journal report about the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect.

Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.

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