{"id":471848,"date":"2026-05-06T20:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:53:14","slug":"in-openai-trial-former-technology-chief-says-altman-sowed-chaos-distrust-among-top-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471848\/","title":{"rendered":"In OpenAI trial, former technology chief says Altman sowed &#8216;chaos,&#8217; distrust among top executives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Greg Bensinger and Juby Babu<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (Reuters) &#8211; A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> technology chief testified on Wednesday in Elon Musk&#8217;s lawsuit that CEO Sam Altman sowed distrust among top executives \u200cas the company forged ahead with developing and broadly deploying its powerful artificial intelligence software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u201cMy concern was \u200cabout Sam saying one thing to one person and completely the opposite to another person,\u201d said Mira Murati, who was briefly CEO \u200bof OpenAI after its board temporarily forced out Altman in 2023. She said Altman was \u201ccreating chaos\u201d and, at times, was deceptive with her and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Murati\u2019s recorded testimony was played in Oakland, California, federal court, in the second week of a trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Musk, the world&#8217;s richest person, sued OpenAI in 2024 on the grounds that it improperly became a for-profit company, abandoned \u200ccharitable goals and should turn back into \u2060a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">If successful, Musk could benefit by hindering the commercial ambitions of a competitor to his own startup xAI, which is now part of SpaceX<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">MUSK SEEKING $150 BILLION IN DAMAGES<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u2060trial could determine the future of OpenAI, which, as a leading AI firm, has tremendous influence over development of the advanced software and its deployment into schools, government agencies and businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, is seeking $150 billion in damages \u200bto \u200bbe paid by OpenAI and investor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Microsoft&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> to benefit the \u200bstartup\u2019s charitable arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Murati, who left OpenAI and has \u200cco-founded her own AI startup, said Altman pitted executives against one another and undermined her role as technology chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">But she said she wanted him to remain CEO, and pressed board members for a fuller justification for ousting him in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u201cOpenAI was at catastrophic risk of falling apart,\u201d Murati said. \u201cI was concerned about the company completely blowing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">CONCERN ABOUT CHATGPT RELEASE<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Another former OpenAI official, onetime board member Shivon Zilis, hinted at some of the turmoil as the \u200ccompany prepared for the blockbuster release of chatbot ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">She said \u200bthe board &#8220;voiced extreme concern&#8221; about releasing ChatGPT &#8220;without any semblance of board \u200bcommunication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Asked whether she raised concerns about Altman internally, \u200bZilis said &#8220;there had been a couple of instances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Zilis now works for Musk&#8217;s Neuralink. She is \u200calso the mother of four of his children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Testimony \u200bfrom Musk, OpenAI President Greg \u200bBrockman and others has sketched out a series of conflicts among senior executives and founders about how to drive and support growth of the company and whether Musk, whose early funding was crucial to \u200blaunching the startup, should become CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Greg Bensinger and Juby Babu SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (Reuters) &#8211; A former OpenAI technology chief testified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,1647,19,17,40711,307,308,82,207075,207076],"class_list":{"0":"post-471848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mira-murati","16":"tag-openai","17":"tag-sam-altman","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-technology-chief","20":"tag-world39s-richest-person"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116529620866936105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}