Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual assembly of the World Financial Discussion board, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024.
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Elon Musk filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, amongst others, accusing they breached their contract by abandoning their mission to develop synthetic intelligence “for the advantage of humanity broadly.”
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday with a San Francisco courtroom, Musk’s attorneys mentioned the tech billionaire was approached in 2015 by Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and agreed to kind a non-profit lab that will develop synthetic common intelligence for the “good thing about humanity.”
“To at the present time, OpenAI, Inc.’s web site continues to profess that its constitution is to make sure that AGI advantages all of humanity.’ In actuality, nonetheless, OpenAI, Inc. has been remodeled right into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the biggest expertise firm on this planet: Microsoft,” the lawsuit submitting mentioned.
Musk’s attorneys mentioned within the lawsuit that OpenAI’s deal with maximizing earnings for Microsoft breaks that settlement.
“Beneath its new Board, it isn’t simply creating however is definitely refining an AGI to maximise earnings for Microsoft, relatively than for the advantage of humanity,” the submitting mentioned.
OpenAI and Microsoft weren’t instantly obtainable for remark.
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