On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
Elon Musk came to a California federal court on Wednesday to argue that Sam Altman and his co-founders “stole a charity.” He left having admitted, under oath, that Tesla is not currently pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) — directly contradicting a tweet he’d posted just weeks earlier.
It was that kind of day for Musk.
The lawsuit he filed challenging the structure of OpenAI alleges Altman and the other co-founders tricked him into backing a nonprofit, then launched the frontier lab’s for-profit arm and let it come to dominate the organization.
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