INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman
(Photo: Reuters)2 min read Last Updated : Aug 06 2024 | 8:28 AM IST
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and two of its
founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, renewing claims that the ChatGPT-maker betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good
rather than pursuing profits.
The lawsuit, filed in a Northern California federal court, called Musk's case a textbook tale of altruism
Altman and others named in the suit intentionally courted and deceived Musk, preying on Musk's humanitarian concern about the existential
dangers posed by artificial intelligence, according to the complaint.
Musk was an early investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015 and
co-chaired its board alongside Altman
In the lawsuit, he said he invested tens of millions of dollars and recruited top AI research scientists for OpenAI
Musk resigned from the board in early 2018 in a move that OpenAI said at the time would prevent conflicts of interest as he was recruiting
AI talent to build self-driving technology at the electric car maker.
The Tesla CEO dropped his previous lawsuit against OpenAI without
That lawsuit alleged that when Musk bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Brockman to keep the AI company as
a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public and keep its code open.
As we said about Elon's initial legal
filing, which was subsequently withdrawn, Elon's prior emails continue to speak for themselves, a spokesperson for OpenAI said in an emailed
In March, OpenAI released emails from Musk showing his earlier support for making it a for-profit company.
Musk claims in the new suit
that he and OpenAI's namesake objective were betrayed by Altman and his accomplices.
The perfidy and deceit are of Shakespearean
proportions, the complaint said.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the
rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)First Published: Aug 06 2024 | 8:28 AMIST
