Florida authorities ask court to block OpenAI’s ChatGPT over safety issues

Published On 28 Sep 202628 Sep 2026

Authorities in Florida have asked a state court to stop OpenAI from further developing ChatGPT until it can impose a series of guardrails meant to protect users and the general public.

“Stop calling it safe. Stop pretending it’s human. Stop selling it to kids,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a statement posted on X announcing the court case on Monday.

Uthmeier, a Republican, served as the chief of staff for fellow Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis until 2025.

The call for regulation of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools contradicts the viewpoint of the administration of United States President Donald Trump, who has balked at the idea of introducing guardrails and called warnings “hoaxes”.

Uthmeier said the state was asking for the Florida 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Highlands County to intervene in particular based on recent warnings issued by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that AI posed a danger to the public if it was not subjected to safeguards.

Humanity could “lose control of the future of AI,” Altman told the United Nations Security Council last week alongside the heads of rival developers Anthropic and Hugging Face, who also called for authorities to step in to guide the industry.