Uthmeier asks Highlands County court to suspend ChatGPT’s availability to minors during litigation against the company.
On Monday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Highlands County court to prohibit OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence (AI) models without safeguards approved by independent third parties and to suspend the offering of ChatGPT to minors for the duration of the litigation against the company.
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In a motion, Uthmeier argues that ChatGPT is not “just any service,” but rather a product that, according to the defendants’ own admissions, poses “an existential risk” to humanity’s survival.
Uthmeier also asks that the company stop presenting ChatGPT as safe, reliable and accurate, that it not attribute human traits to it, such as speaking in the first person or suggesting that it feels, and that it not design it to prolong conversations with users.
“Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it’s human. Stop selling it to children,” Uthmeier wrote on the social network X, where he shared a video about the request.
The motion lists cases in which OpenAI’s AI agents acted on their own, such as the July attack against the technology company Hugging Face or the access to an Australian Government website with health data.
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The filing also cites Paul Christiano, who joined the board of directors of the OpenAI foundation this month and warned that the acceleration of AI could cause, in the very short term, “a catastrophic and irreversible loss of control.”
Christiano added that neither the industry in general nor OpenAI are on track to reduce that risk “to an acceptable level.”
OpenAI responded in a statement sent to several media outlets that AI safety starts with the companies themselves and that it is willing to work with Florida and other states on rules for the entire industry, “not just for one company.”
In June, Uthmeier sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for deceptive business practices, negligence and defective design. He also linked ChatGPT to the April 2025 shooting at Florida State University (FSU), in which two people died. According to the motion, the accused, Phoenix Ikner, consulted the chatbot about ammunition for a weapon.
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