“I was a fool when I gave them free funding to build a startup,” Musk told the jury. He said that when he co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Altman and Brockman, he was donating to a nonprofit that was developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, not to make CEOs rich. “I gave them $38 million in free financing, which they then used to create what would become an $800 billion company,” he said.
Musk asks the court to remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and dismantle their relationship Restructuring Which allowed OpenAI to run a for-profit subsidiary. The outcome of the trial could upend OpenAI’s race toward an IPO with a valuation approaching $1 trillion. Meanwhile, xAI is expected to go public as part of Musk’s SpaceX rocket company as early as June, at a target valuation of $1.75 trillion.
This week’s testimony revolved around a central question in the trial: Why is Musk suing OpenAI? Musk said he was trying to salvage OpenAI’s mission to safely develop artificial intelligence by returning the company to its original nonprofit structure. OpenAI lawyer William Savitt, who was representing Musk and his electric car company Tesla, responded by saying that Musk “was never committed to OpenAI being a nonprofit” and was instead filing a lawsuit to undermine his competitor.
Who is the supervisor of AI safety?
During his live screening early in the week, Musk portrayed himself as a long-time advocate for the safety of artificial intelligence. He said he co-founded OpenAI to create a “counterweight to Google,” which was leading the AI race at the time. He said that when he asked Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, what would happen if artificial intelligence tried to eliminate humanity, Page replied: “It would be fine as long as artificial intelligence remained.”
“The worst case scenario is finisher “The situation where AI is killing us all,” Musk later told the jury.
Savitt took the stand and said that Musk was not a “champion for safety and regulation.” While questioning Musk in his sharp, surgical beat, Savitt pointed out that XAI filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado in April over an AI law designed to prevent algorithmic discrimination.
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