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Elon Musk accuses Google co-founder of loving robots as much as people: ‘Larry Page called me a ‘specieist”
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Elon Musk had a colorful first day of testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI.
Key facts
- After ChatGPT’s 2022 launch turned OpenAI into a roughly $730 billion company, Musk sued, alleging Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman stole a charity
- He testified that those concerns about AI crystallized during a 2015 meeting with Page, when the Google co-founder predicted AI would bring utopia
- The team want to be in a Gene Roddenberry outcome, like ‘Star Trek.’ Not so much a James Cameron movie like ‘Terminator
- Yet, even as he positions himself in court as the last line of defense for charitable giving in America, his foundation, the Musk Foundation, has failed to give away the legally required 5%
Summary
He also pinned the entire story of OpenAI on a single insult he says Google co-founder Larry Page once hurled at him: “specieist.” The trial, which is expected to run about four weeks, centers on Musk’s 2024 lawsuit accusing OpenAI of betraying its founding mission as a nonprofit “for the benefit of all mankind.” Musk co-founded the lab in 2015 alongside Sam Altman after the two spent weeks discussing their fears of AI falling into the hands of profit-seeking megacorporations, namely Google. After ChatGPT’s 2022 launch turned OpenAI into a roughly $730 billion company, Musk sued, alleging Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman stole a charity. OpenAI’s lawyers tell a slightly different story.