Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a judge to block OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, from developing and releasing new models until after the state's lawsuit against the company.
The new motion, filed on Monday, also seeks a temporary injunction to ban minors in Florida from accessing ChatGPT, restrict data collection from children under 13 without their parents' consent, and prevent OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes."
Florida previously sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in June, alleging that it failed to protect young users and misrepresented the safety of ChatGPT. OpenAI has denied these claims and says it continues to fine-tune its safety tools.
In a video posted Monday, Uthmeier challenged Altman to support his cause.
"If Sam Altman meant what he said about slowing down, he can join our ask to the court," Uthmeier said.
His comments refer to a speech Sam Altman made last week to the UN Security Council. "We have unilaterally slowed down in the past. We will do so in the future," Altman said, if it can't keep its systems under the control of the humans running them.
Other states like California are pursuing similar measures with regard to AI. Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered studies on whether frontier AI companies should be required to implement emergency "kill switches" for their models.