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At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
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Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI wasn’t the charity he claims was stolen from him (they all knew that was coming ).
Key facts
- Still, as recently as 2023 he told tech podcaster Lex Fridman he wanted to patch things up: “The team were friends for a long time
- Fortune included them on its 2016 list of secretly best-friend business leaders; Musk was so comfortable with Page that he regularly crashed at his Palo Alto home
- Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI wasn’t the charity he claims was stolen from him (they all knew that was coming )
- That’s mostly notable given how close the two once
Summary
Musk testified that one of his core motivations for co-founding OpenAI was a falling-out with Google’s Larry Page over AI safety, specifically, a conversation in which Musk raised the prospect of AI wiping out humanity and Page shrugged it off as “fine,” so long as AI itself survived. That’s mostly notable given how close the two once were. It’s a story Musk has told before, including to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk, but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.