Elon Musk’s lawsuit argues that OpenAI duped him about its vision for artificial intelligence, but the company counters the early backer was out for control – Copyright AFP Jim WATSON<\/p>\n
Elon Musk\u2019s lawsuit accusing high-profile artificial intelligence company OpenAI of betraying its non-profit mission heads for trial on Monday with the selection of jurors.<\/p>\n
The legal clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits the world\u2019s richest person against a startup Musk once backed and now competes with in the booming AI sector.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT is a formidable rival to the chatbot Grok, made by Musk\u2019s xAI lab.<\/p>\n
While Musk\u2019s lawsuit is part of a feud between him and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, it spotlights a debate as to whether AI should ultimately serve to benefit a privileged few or society as a whole.<\/p>\n
Court filings lay out how Altman convinced Musk to back OpenAI in 2015, acting as a co-founder for a non-profit lab whose technology \u201cwould belong to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musk pumped millions of dollars into the lab, which he subsequently left.<\/p>\n
However, OpenAI established a commercial subsidiary as it needed hundreds of billions of dollars for data centers to power its technology.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has poured billions of dollars into OpenAI and its CEO Satya Nadella is among those slated to testify at the trial.<\/p>\n
Musk argues in his lawsuit that he was deceived about OpenAI\u2019s mission being altruistic.<\/p>\n
San Francisco-based OpenAI has countered in court filings that its break-up with Musk was due to his quest for absolute control rather than its nonprofit status.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case has always been about Elon generating more power and more money for what he wants,\u201d OpenAI said in a recent X post. \u201cHis lawsuit remains nothing more than a harassment campaign that\u2019s driven by ego, jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The startup noted that days after Musk entered the AI race in 2023 he called for a six-month moratorium on development of advanced AI.<\/p>\n
The judge presiding over the trial will decide by mid-May \u2014 guided by an advisory jury\u2019s findings \u2014 whether OpenAI broke a promise to Musk in a drive to lead in AI or just smartly rode the technology to glory.<\/p>\n
Along with calling for OpenAI to be forced to revert to a pure nonprofit, Musk\u2019s suit urges the ouster of Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman, who is startup president.<\/p>\n
Musk, who had sought as much as $134 billion in damages, has since renounced any personal benefit, pledging to redirect any award to the OpenAI nonprofit. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has reserved the right to determine any remedies herself, without the jury\u2019s input.<\/p>\n
OpenAI now has a hybrid governance structure giving its nonprofit foundation control over a for-profit arm.<\/p>\n
Musk, who gutted the trust and safety team at Twitter after buying the social media platform that he renamed X, faces the challenge of convincing a jury and a judge that the company behind ChatGPT was built on a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s lawsuit argues that OpenAI duped him about its vision for artificial intelligence, but the company counters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,982,25,7844,134,12737,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-17788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-altman","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-musk","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-trial","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}