Catac

Today I can publicly announce that I am part of a landmark lawsuit against all of the major AI companies. I'm suing Anthropic, OpenAI, X, and Google because we deserve real AI safety standards, not shady deals cut by an unaccountable cartel of billionaires in a back room. Since July, these companies have been meeting privately to plan a response to growing public pressure for real AI regulation. Then Anthropic's CEO published an essay saying the industry should slow down. Within hours, Musk and Altman said publicly that they agreed. They're branding it as a safety breakthrough, but it's not. It's four corporations agreeing not to compete on the one thing regulators were about to force them to adopt — safety standards. This is a blatant violation of the Sherman Act, which outlaws corporations joining forces to dodge public pressure together instead of facing it alone.  The timing isn't a coincidence, either. This "deal" was struck at the exact moment lawmakers were gaining real momentum to pass binding AI regulations. So instead of enforceable law, we got a deal cut among the companies themselves — one they wrote, they enforce, and they can rewrite whenever it’s in their best interest. This publicly announced pinky promise gave Mike Johnson cover to adjourn the House of Representatives just before they could pass binding legislation on the topic. If these companies actually believe their products could risk human extinction, how to move forward is not a decision four CEOs get to make behind closed doors, weighing their profit margins against the harms done to users, the economy, and the environment. That's the government's job — with real transparency into how the rules are written and how they are enforced.  So I'm suing. Because rules written by the industry, for the industry, policed by the industry aren't safety standards. They're a grift. And the public should be writing the rules — not four billionaires.