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According to Politico, a civil lawsuit filed Friday in federal court alleges that AI giants Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Google are facing conspiracy charges over recent calls for coordinated slowing of AI development. The complaint claims that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called earlier this month for "industry-wide coordination" to "set the pace for the frontier," and was joined in that call by SpaceX AI head Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, amounting to an illegal business agreement among competitors under U.S. antitrust law. Nick Rowley, one of the lawyers representing four plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, said the case aims to ensure that private, self-interested agreements among the world's most powerful for-profit tech companies do not cause AI to "rapidly spiral beyond human control." When it comes to threats of extinction events such as nuclear war and what is now the greatest risk in human history, humanity deserves ironclad safeguards. The rule of law should be established transparently, lawfully, and accountably to the public by the U.S. government.