Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman and others, whom he accuses of violating contracts signed in 2015 when he was one of the founders of the organization that will create ChatGPT, Reuters reports.
The complaint, filed Thursday in a San Francisco court, alleges that Altman, along with Greg Brockman, another co-founder of OpenAI, approached Musk several years ago about creating a nonprofit “open source” company that would develop technology related to artificial intelligence for the “good of humanity”.
But Musk’s lawyers say in the complaint that OpenAI is now trying to profit by violating the agreements made at the time. OpenAI, Musk and Microsoft, the main backer of the Sam Altman-led company, did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but stepped down from the board in 2018 amid disagreements over the direction the company should take.
A year before he left OpenAI, Musk warned that the “chasing for superiority” in AI could lead to a third world war.
Elon Musk has his own company for the development of artificial intelligence
The South African billionaire has been sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI for the past few years and was one of 1,000 signatories to a public letter last March calling for a 6-month pause in training stronger AI models than GPT-4.
“Strong artificial intelligence systems should be developed only after we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks can be managed,” the letter said.
“Artificial intelligence systems with competitive human intelligence can pose serious risks to society and humanity, as numerous studies show and as acknowledged by leading artificial intelligence laboratories,” the signatories further warn.
But just a few weeks after signing that letter, Musk announced that he would launch his own AI company, which he called the “third option.”
Documents obtained later by the press showed that Musk had already registered this company under the name xAI even before the publication of the letter warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. xAI is registered in San Francisco, where Musk has now sued OpenAI.
Source: Hot News
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