Musk, who learned how to throw a punch on the tough streets of South Africa, isn t messing around when it comes to what he has described as the civilizational risk that AI carries if it falls into the wrong hands or the potential fortunes it could create for whoever cracks the coding to breathe humanlike reasoning into machines.
A 35-page complaint filed in a San Francisco court late Thursday is built on what Musk describes as the hypocrisy of Altman. According to the lawsuit, when Altman and Musk started OpenAI years ago they agreed it would be a not-for-profit entity to counter the greed of Google only to have OpenAI, under Altman s control, later pivot toward moneymaking ventures with Microsoft.
The themes of betrayal and scheming alleged by Musk, who parted with OpenAI in 2018 after a dispute, could easily be plot points in HBO s Westworld, a TV series about killer robots rising up against their morally broke corporate masters.
