Lawsuits as AI moratorium

Advocacy groups are increasingly using consumer‑protection and unfair‑competition statutes to ask courts to halt the development or deployment of new AI models. If successful, these suits would create judicially enforced pauses that bypass legislation and regulation to impose technical and corporate constraints. — This reframes AI governance: litigation becomes a de facto regulatory tool with outsized impact on innovation, corporate risk, and who gets to decide safety thresholds.