Florida AG seeks emergency injunction to block all new OpenAI model development without third-party oversight
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-28
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a court for an emergency injunction against OpenAI that would block all new model development absent independent third-party oversight. The filing quotes Paul Christiano's statement on joining the OpenAI board.
The move follows an Axios scoop that top AI labs are investigating tens of thousands of security incidents, which Florida cited in calling for a pause on ChatGPT development. It marks an unusually aggressive state-level attempt to freeze frontier model development via the courts.
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