Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for violating the founding agreement of the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) company, considering that the company’s profit has been put before the “benefit of humanity” that was originally pursued.
According to publication Bloombergthe billionaire entrepreneur, who helped fund OpenAI in its infancy, believes that the close relationship between Open AI and Microsoft has undermined the company’s original mission to create an open source technology that was not subject to the corporate priorities of a company.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla, the owner of Twitter, now called X, and founder of Space X, has warned on several occasions of the dangers of AI and generative AI.
In the lawsuit, to which this agency alludes, it explains that Open AI has ceased to be an open source company and has become a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft, the largest technology company in the world.
Musk has referred in the lawsuit, filed in a court in San Francisco (United States), to the restructuring of OpenAI’s board of directors in 2023, when Altman was removed as CEO and then quickly replenished with the support of Microsoft.
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The businessman has argued that Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft worked together to oust the majority of the startup’s board of directors, which had been responsible for enforcing its original mission of developing technology for the benefit of humanity.
The new Board was made up of members with more experience in business or politics focused on economic profit, than in ethics and AI governance.
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The lawsuit will have implications not only for OpenAI, which wants to raise $100 billion or more in funding, but also for Microsoft, he explained. Bloomberg.
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