Tesla CEO Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claiming their development of artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity broadly” has proven to be false.
Musk’s lawyers claimed the billionaire was approached in 2015 by Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and agreed to form a nonprofit lab that would develop artificial general intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.”
“To this day, OpenAI, Inc.‘s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.’ In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” the lawsuit filing said.
Musk’s lawyers said that OpenAI’s focus on maximizing profits for Microsoft breaks that agreement.
“Under its new Board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity,” the filing said.
The lawyers also said the lawsuit was submitted “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.”
