Articles from Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology

Public Interest Law Nonprofit LASST Sues OpenAI Over Autonomous AI Agent Hacks
Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), represented by its own lawyers and Gerstein Harrow LLP, today filed suit against OpenAI Group PBC and the OpenAI Foundation in the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco under California's Unfair Competition Law, alleging predicate violations of California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA). The lawsuit seeks a court order prohibiting OpenAI's AI agents from accessing third-party computer systems without permission, and forbidding OpenAI from continuing to employ unsafe AI development practices that threaten serious harm to the public.
Legal Nonprofit LASST and Broad Coalition Defend the Public's Right to Know What's in AI Training Data
Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST) and a coalition spanning civil society organizations, child safety advocates, entertainment industry trade associations, AI law and policy groups, and First Amendment scholars filed an amicus brief yesterday defending California's AI Training Data Transparency Act, also known as AB 2013, now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in xAI v. Bonta.