Elon Musk in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman argues that the merger with Microsoft was a betrayal of the company's mission in pursuit of profit.
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On the last day of February 2024, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of California in San Francisco, accusing OpenAI and its founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of betraying the company's founding mission. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX also claims that the creators of ChatGPT, by collaborating with Microsoft, prioritized profit over the good of humanity.
"OpenAI has been de facto transformed into a subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft. Under new management, it not only develops, but actually improves AGI [artificial general intelligence, general artificial intelligence – ed.] not for the benefit of humanity, but to maximize Microsoft's profits" - we read in the lawsuit.
AGI, or general artificial intelligence, is a theoretical form of AI that is supposed to be able to perform a range of tasks at the same or higher level as a human. Elon Musk himself has repeatedly publicly called AGI a "deadly threat to humanity" and reiterated this opinion in the initial statement of the lawsuit against OpenAI.
"Where some, like Elon Musk, see AGI as an existential threat, others see it as a source of profit and power" - it was written in the case documents, adding that in the hands of profit-oriented companies like Google or Microsoft, AGI represents a "particularly dangerous threat to humanity".
The lawsuit filed by Musk is the aftermath of an interview that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave shortly after personal turmoil in the OpenAI board at the end of last year. Nadella then stated that even if "OpenAI disappears, Microsoft will still have intellectual property rights". Elon Musk's lawyers present this statement as evidence of the close link between OpenAI's interests and Microsoft.
Through the lawsuit, Musk is therefore trying to force OpenAI to adhere to the company's original founding mission, which assumed non-profit activity for the benefit of humanity. At the same time, the billionaire demands a ban on profiting from technologies developed by OpenAI by partners such as Microsoft and the return of donations intended to finance public AI research.
The lawsuit also seeks a ruling that artificial intelligence systems such as GPT-4 and other advanced language models constitute general artificial intelligence that goes beyond licensing agreements.
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