Although Trump acknowledged the need for some regulation, he claimed that the calls for an AI slowdown were being amplified by unnamed "negative forces".
Days after Anthropic published a threat intelligence report highlighting alarming misuse of AI, its CEO published an essay proposing an AI slowdown, however, concerns have been raised that this proposal is not just about safety but also about bolstering duopoly of OpenAI and Anthropic.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, along with other key authorities have accused Chinese AI companies of conducting industrial-scale distillation of AI models of OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and others to extract proprietary capabilities, thus reducing development timelines and costs for their own AI models.
The court said that the grant of an interim injunction against OpenAI in favour of ANI would inflict “irreparable injury” to OpenAI and the public at large.
The police ruled the event as a suicide but reports suggest that before his death, Balaji had sounded an alarm on OpenAI’s allegedly illegal copyright practices in the development of ChatGPT.
Suchir Balaji's mother said her son was found dead a week after being named as a potential witness in a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The NY Times.
Suchir Balaji's father, Balaji Ramamurthy, described being the last person to speak with his son. He said, “He was happy, not depressed or anything. And it was his birthday week,” while disputing the suicide claim.