{"id":292366,"date":"2026-06-01T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292366\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:57:09","slug":"florida-sues-openai-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292366\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sues OpenAI over safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida on Monday became the first US state to sue OpenAI, alleging that  the ChatGPT maker ignored safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The wide-ranging lawsuit argued that OpenAI was driven by an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openai-sued-by-floridas-attorney-general-over-ai-harms-8a5113a8?mod=hp_lead_pos2\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">insatiable quest to win the AI arms race<\/a> and amass large fortunes,\u201d and accused the AI startup of aiding mass shooters, harming users\u2019 cognitive capabilities, and encouraging people to take their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, in response, defended its safety mechanisms. The legal challenge from the Republican-led state is part of the growing backlash against the fast-growing AI industry, even as President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ai-executive-order-ee318f35acc8a2c43e47f3ebf26cb459\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">postponed signing an executive order<\/a> aimed at giving the government more oversight.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and other AI companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czx2j0v8d2xo\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">have faced wrongful death lawsuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida on Monday became the first US state to sue OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker ignored safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-292366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}