Former OpenAI researchers and AI safety nonprofits that have filed amicus briefs in support of Musk in this case say they believe it’s important the ChatGPT maker is held accountable to its founding principles of safety and benefiting humanity, especially as its commercial pressures grow. Jacob Hilton is part of a group of former OpenAI employees that signed one such brief objecting specifically to how OpenAI converted into a for-profit entity. “It’s definitely important that OpenAI lives up to its mission. I think we’re still seeing a lot of things that OpenAI is doing that, in my view, aren’
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul… When reached for comment, an OpenAI spokesperson directed WIRED to a section of a company blog that reads, “Motivated by jealousy, regret for walking away from OpenAI and a desire to derail a competing AI company, Elon has spent years harassing OpenAI through baseless lawsuits and public attacks.” … …
… I think we want to be in a movie … like Star Trek, not a James Cameron movie,” Musk said. While Musk has long raised alarms about AI safety, his current firm, xAI, has been criticized by researchers at other AI labs for its “reckless” safety culture. …
… It depicted the rear end of a donkey—with two legs, a butt, and a tail—and was inscribed with the message, “Joshua Achiam, never stop being a jackass for safety.” OpenAI employees at the time, Dario Amodei and David Luan, presented the gift to chief futurist Achiam, who started at the company as an… …
… Initially, many cases, including a plaintiff she represented in their lawsuit against Grindr in 2017, were dismissed because “judges couldn’t conceive that online platforms were products—and not services.” Now, she says, they regularly succeed past initial dismissals. “We have product liability cla… …
… But Sutskever also added to OpenAI’s defense that Musk never negotiated any special promises when funding the OpenAI nonprofit. Musk’s allegation that such commitments existed and that Altman and Brockman violated them by pursuing a lucrative for-profit arm are the core of his claims in the lawsuit. …
… But OpenAI’s lawyers have made the case in witness testimonies and evidence that her most important role, as it pertains to this lawsuit, is being a covert liaison between OpenAI and Musk, even years after he left the nonprofit’s board in February 2018. “Do you prefer I stay close and friendly to O… …
… Public advocacy groups disagree that funding alone is sufficient. “I am among the many people who are glad to see how many philanthropic resources the OpenAI foundation has at its disposal to do good work,” says Nathan Calvin, VP of state affairs for the AI safety nonprofit Encode, which filed an a… …
… You spearheaded the Responsible AI Safety and Education, or RAISE, Act. In a nutshell, it requires major AI developers to publish safety testing practices. Can you explain how that works? What exactly does that mean? This applies only to the very largest AI developers. …
… OpenAI has denied the allegations. They're saying that Musk just wants to hurt OpenAI because now he has a competitive AI lab, which is xAI. And in fact, the lawsuit was only filed after Musk started xAI, although the feud has been going on basically since Elon Musk left OpenAI years and years ago. …
… He lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI in really as full a way as you can, as dramatically as possible. …