On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk testified in a California federal court that Sam Altman and other OpenAI cofounders betrayed his trust by shifting the organization toward a for-profit model, which he claims deviated from its original nonprofit mission. Under cross-examination, Musk contradicted some of his own public statements, including tweets about Tesla's pursuit of artificial general intelligence and his financial contributions to OpenAI. The case may hinge on whether the court views OpenAI's profit-capped structure as sufficiently aligned with its nonprofit roots.
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Elon Musk came to a California federal court on Wednesday to argue that Sam Altman and his cofounders “stole a charity.” He left having admitted, under oath, that Tesla is not currently pursuing artificial general intelligence — directly contradicting a tweet he’d posted just weeks earlier. It was that kind of day for Musk. The lawsuit he filed challenging the structure of OpenAI is alleges Sam Altman and the other cofounders tricked him into backing a non-profit, then launched the frontier lab’s for-profit arm and let it come to dominate the organization.
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