www.rollingstone.com Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity
Elon Musk sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying they've gone back on an agreement to build AI tech that betters humanity and doesn't make a profit.
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9303135
Huh, though the #ElonMusk clock is broken, this is one of the times of the day it’s still correct:
Elon Musk accused Sam Altman and OpenAI of pursuing profit over bettering humanity in a new breach of contract lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court yesterday, Feb. 29.
Musk helped Altman found OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015 (Musk left the board of directors in 2018 and no longer has a stake). Central to the lawsuit is OpenAI’s “founding agreement,” which, per the lawsuit, stated the lab would build artificial general intelligence (AGI) “for the benefit of humanity,” not to “maximize shareholder profits,” and that the technology would be “open-source” and not kept “secret for propriety commercial reasons.”
Musk’s new lawsuit alleges that OpenAI has reversed course on this agreement, particularly through its $13 billion partnership with Microsoft. It further calls out the secrecy shrouding the tech behind O