Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman Over Microsoft Link
Published on March 1, 2024
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders, alleging that they violated the company’s founding agreement by developing artificial intelligence (AI) for profit rather than advancing it for the good of humanity. Mr. Musk, who was an original board member of OpenAI but left in 2018, said in his complaint that the defendants—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Gregory Brockman—broke their pledge to develop AI “for the benefit of humanity” and are instead pursuing profit and power. The lawsuit, filed late on Feb. 29 in San Francisco, alleged a breach of contract, arguing that Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman initially joined forces with Mr. Musk to launch OpenAI as an open-source, non-profit company....