Elon Musk sues OpenAI and its chief over ‘betrayal of goal to benefit humanity’

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and its chief over ‘betrayal of goal to benefit humanity’
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.

In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Mr Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI’s creation, he secured an agreement with Mr Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a non-profit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public.

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