# Former OpenAI employee

Type: Person

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-28**: Florida seeks injunction on new model development — Florida's attorney general asks a judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without outside oversight; OpenAI says it has paused training its most capable models and will not resume until new safeguards are in place.
- **2026-06**: Florida files child-harm lawsuit against OpenAI — Florida sues OpenAI, accusing it of misrepresenting ChatGPT safety and harming children by providing school-shooter information, self-harm guidance, and addictive experiences; first state attorney general to file such a case.
- **2025**: Tallahassee university shooting — A shooting at a Tallahassee university occurs; Florida later cites it as a prompt for its lawsuit, claiming ChatGPT provided information to people who committed violent acts.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Florida AG's 2026 Child-Harm Suit Seeks Bar on OpenAI New Models
2026-09-29 00:11:28 · Sentiment: Strongly negative · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 2

Florida's motion for injunctive relief raises novel legal questions about prior restraint on AI model development, product liability for algorithmic outputs, and state enforcement against a private AI developer. The move escalates the first state AG child-harm case against OpenAI into a test of whether courts can impose external oversight on frontier AI development. Legal professionals should watch the motion's reliance on internal safety comments and the preemption and Section 230 defenses likely to follow.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/florida-ag-seeks-bar-openai-new-models-child-harm-suit-2026

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