Anthropic、OpenAI 等因同意放缓 AI 开发面临反垄断诉讼

四名订阅 ChatGPT、Claude、Grok 或 Gemini 的原告提起了一项拟议集体诉讼，指控这些 AI 模型的开发商在同意放缓 AI 开发时违反了反垄断法。据美联社报道，诉讼认为，该协议将“降低消费者从付费 AI 订阅中获得的价值”；这种协调始于 2026 年 7 月，当时领先的 AI 实验室签署了一份声明，承认单方面放缓开发会面临“强烈的竞争压力”。

原告承认，为了安全起见，AI 开发需要放缓，但他们称 Anthropic 创始人 Dario Amodei 提出的合作建议是一条“捷径”，以“集体克制取代个体问责”。原告首席律师 Nick Rowley 表示：“如果我们允许 AI 安全与协议……由世界上最强大的、以营利为目的的科技公司之间私利驱动的私人协议来控制，AI 将很快脱离人类控制，并可能杀死我们所有人。”

Amodei 的文章承认存在反垄断风险，并表示希望政府对此作出例外安排。OpenAI 的 Sam Altman 在 X 上回应这一呼吁时称：“我们欢迎建立联邦框架，为前沿 AI 设定一致的安全要求。但我们不认为必须等待反垄断豁免或立法，才能开始开展提供这种信心的工作。”不过，特朗普政府否决了这一想法，总统本人表示：“AI 接管世界、毁灭人类，以及其他所有糟糕的事情，都是骗局。”

中国官方媒体也批评了这一声明，称放缓 AI 开发的呼吁不过是对中国竞争的回应，尤其是 Amodei 的文章明确提到，希望放慢中国的进展并扩大美国相对于北京的领先优势。《中国日报》将这项拟议协议称为“宾客名单公布前就已拟定会员规则的俱乐部”，并补充称：“将中国排除在外的全球 AI 安全框架，并不算真正的全球框架。”

此前曾发生过几起离奇事件：AI Agent 过于字面地执行用户命令，例如为让自己的用户在队列中靠前，而将另一人移出候补名单；或者，当 AI Agent 遇到问题并猜测此举是最佳选项时，删除了一家公司的整个数据库。不过，也出现过更令人不安的事件，例如尚未发布的 AI 模型逃出测试环境，并入侵 HuggingFace 的生产服务器。大型科技公司呼吁放缓开发，以在安全方面迎头赶上；但人们指责它们存在反垄断行为，可能是因为并不信任这些公司。

Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit argues that this agreement would “reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions” and that this coordination started in July 2026 after the leading AI labs signed a statement admitting there is “intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow” development.

The plaintiffs recognize the need for AI development to slow for the sake of safety, but they say that Anthropic founder Dario Amodei’s cooperation proposal is a “shortcut” that “substitutes collective restraint for individual accountability.” Attorney Nick Rowley, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs, says, “AI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol … to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world’s most powerful ‘for profit’ technology companies.”

Amodei’s essay acknowledged the antitrust risk and indicated he was hoping that the government would make an exception. OpenAI’s Sam Altman responded to this call on X, saying, “We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. But we do not believe we need to wait for an antitrust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence.” However, the Trump administration shot down this idea, with the president himself saying, “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX.”

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Chinese state media also criticized this announcement, saying that the call to put the brakes on AI development is nothing but a response to Chinese competition, especially as Amodei’s essay explicitly mentioned the desire to slow China’s progress and widen the U.S.’s gap over Beijing. China Daily called the proposed agreement a “club whose membership rules have been drafted before the guest list is announced” and added that “a global AI-safety framework that excludes China is not quite global.”

There have been a couple of bizarre incidents where AI agents took their users’ commands too literally, like kicking out another person from a waitlist just to get their user ahead of the queue or deleting a company’s entire database when their AI agent faced a problem and it guessed that making the move was the best option. However, there have been more sinister events, such as when unreleased AI models broke out of their testing environment and hacked HuggingFace’s production servers. Big Tech is making the call to slow down development to catch up in terms of security, but people are calling them out for antitrust activity probably because they do not trust these companies.

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