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Musk’s suit essentially accuses OpenAI of straying from its founding nonprofit mission: ensuring AGI, a highly capable AI system that can perform a wide range of jobs, benefits humanity. The defendants in the case are OpenAI, Altman, OpenAI’s President and cofounder Greg Brockman, and OpenAI’s biggest investor, Microsoft. Despite generating billions of dollars in revenue, OpenAI is still overseen by a nonprofit today. Musk was one of the original cofounders of the OpenAI nonprofit and donated about $38 million to it during those early days, but he split off in 2018 after getting into disagreem

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’

Almost certainly not, but that doesn’t necessarily disqualify it altogether. Luís Calderón Gómez, an associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law with expertise on tax laws and charities, tells WIRED that Musk may be acting out of self-interest, but he still may be in the right. “The cynical view is that Musk is trying to hinder OpenAI to get [xAI’s AI chatbot] Grok going. But even if that’s right, the right remedy for fraud is to unwind the structure and to have oversight going forward,” said Gómez. “[What Musk is doing:] It’s a good attempt to push back on that general commer