Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for abandoning missionElon Musk has sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, among others, saying they had abandoned the company’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity not profit. The lawsuit filed late on Thursday said Altman and OpenAI’s co-founder Greg Brockman originally approached Musk to make an open source, non-profit company. The Microsoft-backed company’s focus on making money breached that contract, lawyers for Musk said in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but stepped down from its board in 2018. Last year serial entrepreneur Altman was fired by OpenAI’s former board which said it was trying to defend the company’s mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.

Source: Daily Nation March 01, 2024 13:15 UTC