The future of artificial general intelligence is at the center of the conflict.
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, as well as others, claiming that they departed from the company's original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of all mankind.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in a San Francisco court, Musk's lawyers pointed out that in 2015, Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman proposed that the tech billionaire form a nonprofit lab that would develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
After co-founding OpenAI in 2015, Musk left the company's board of directors in 2018, four years after saying AI could be " potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons."
"So far, the website of OpenAI, Inc. states that its charter is aimed at ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity. However, in fact, OpenAI, Inc. has become a closed subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft, " the statement of claim says.
The lawsuit states that the reorientation of OpenAI to increase Microsoft's profit contradicts the original agreements.
"Under the new board of directors, the company is not only developing, but also improving AGI in order to maximize profits for Microsoft, and not for the benefit of humanity," the document says.
The lawsuit is filed "in order to force OpenAI to adhere to the basic principle ofdisclosure and return to its mission of developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, and not for the personal benefit of individual defendants and the largest technology company in the world."
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, as well as others, claiming that they departed from the company's original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of all mankind.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in a San Francisco court, Musk's lawyers pointed out that in 2015, Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman proposed that the tech billionaire form a nonprofit lab that would develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
After co-founding OpenAI in 2015, Musk left the company's board of directors in 2018, four years after saying AI could be " potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons."
"So far, the website of OpenAI, Inc. states that its charter is aimed at ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity. However, in fact, OpenAI, Inc. has become a closed subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft, " the statement of claim says.
The lawsuit states that the reorientation of OpenAI to increase Microsoft's profit contradicts the original agreements.
"Under the new board of directors, the company is not only developing, but also improving AGI in order to maximize profits for Microsoft, and not for the benefit of humanity," the document says.
The lawsuit is filed "in order to force OpenAI to adhere to the basic principle ofdisclosure and return to its mission of developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, and not for the personal benefit of individual defendants and the largest technology company in the world."
