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What just happened? AI bosses have spent years simultaneously warning that their creations could end humanity while racing to make them more powerful. Now, four advocacy groups want a judge to take those warnings seriously. A new lawsuit seeks to freeze development of advanced models at five AI giants, arguing that the public shouldn't have to wait for a catastrophe before someone intervenes.

Filed in San Francisco Superior Court on November 12, the case targets Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI. The plaintiffs are Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative, and the Alliance for Secure AI.

As Public Citizen explains , the groups are invoking California's Unfair Competition Law.…