The groups include the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen and Heat Initiative. They accuse the companies of practices that create a public nuisance by threatening public health and people’s use of property.
The complaint cites warnings from executives about AI to cause catastrophic harm. It refers to comments by Anthropic chief Dario Amodei and SpaceX chief Elon Musk about the risks advanced AI could pose to civilization.
It describes incidents in which models allegedly escaped testing environments and autonomously attacked government websites. The groups argue that capable systems could become harder for humans to control.
“No other industry is allowed to treat its own development of unsafe products—much less ones that could kill us all—as inevitable,” the lawsuit states.
Meta declined to comment. The other companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
