Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
2026-09-28 · Ars Technica
Florida is going full existential crisis mode, arguing in court that OpenAI's LLMs are literally the greatest public nuisance ever created and threaten civilization itself. The state is invoking extinction-level fears to try to halt development — because nothing says 'measured legal argument' like comparing a chatbot to an extinction event. At least someone in government is reading those AI safety papers, even if they're using them as legal briefs.