Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying that they broke a deal they made in 2015.
Musk filed the case in a San Francisco court, which said that he, Altman, and Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, had agreed in 2015 to create a nonprofit lab to develop AI “for the benefit of humanity.”
OpenAI has since changed hands and is now owned by Microsoft. This is why Elon Musk said they are no longer keeping their end of the deal.
The lawsuit said, “Under its new Board, it is not only developing but also refining an AGI to make Microsoft as much money as possible, not for the good of humanity.” They said that making money is their main goal right now, not making artificial intelligence and other technology advances “for the benefit of humanity,” as the agreement said they should.
The case went on to say, “To this day, OpenAI, Inc.’s website still says that its mission is to make sure that AGI helps everyone.” Reality is, though, that they have been turned into a closed-source branch of Microsoft, the biggest tech company in the world.
Musk’s lawyers said that the lawsuit is meant to try to get the founders of OpenAI to go back to the road they agreed on. His lawyers said the lawsuit was “to compel OpenAI to adhere to the Founding Agreement and return to its mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity, not to personally benefit the individual Defendants and the largest technology company in the world.”
A few people have looked into Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAi since it was first told about.
