Elon Musk says in a Thursday lawsuit that Sam Altman and OpenAI have betrayed an agreement from the artificial intelligence research company’s founding to develop the technology toward the benefit of humanity over profits.
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| Elon Musk and Sam Altman share a stage in October 2015. |
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, for breaching a contract by prioritizing profit and commercial interests in developing artificial intelligence over the public good.
Mr. Musk, who helped create OpenAI with Mr. Altman and
others in 2015, said the company’s multibillion-dollar partnership with
Microsoft represented an abandonment of its founding pledge to carefully
develop A.I. and make the technology publicly available.
Microsoft, which is not named as a defendant in the suit,
gained exclusive licensing to OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model in 2020. Microsoft
continues to assert rights to GPT-4, which it claims has not reached the level
of AGI, which would block its licensing privileges.
Musk claims Microsoft’s hold on Altman and the OpenAI board
will keep them from declaring GPT-4 as a AGI in order to keep the technology
private and profitable.
“OpenAI has been transformed into a closed-source de facto
subsidiary of the largest technology company, Microsoft,” said the lawsuit,
which was filed Thursday in Superior Court in San Francisco.
The lawsuit is the latest chapter in an ongoing fight
between the former business partners that has been simmering for years. After
Mr. Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors in 2018, the company went on to
become a leader in the field of generative A.I. and created ChatGPT, which can
produce text and respond to queries in humanlike prose. Mr. Musk, who has his
own A.I. company, called xAI, said OpenAI is not focused enough on the
technology’s existential risk to humanity.
Mr. Musk’s lawsuit said OpenAI was created as a nonprofit to
develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.” A key component
of that, the lawsuit said, was to make its technology open source, meaning it
would share the underlying software code with the world. Instead, the company
created a for-profit business and has restricted access to its technology.
OpenAI and Mr. Musk did not respond to requests for comment.
Musk is represented in the suit by Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella.
The lawsuit is a fresh challenge for Mr. Altman, who was
briefly ousted as OpenAI’s chief executive last year before regaining control
of the company. In addition to Mr. Altman, the lawsuit also names Greg
Brockman, the president of OpenAI, as a defendant.
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December,
claiming copyright infringement of news content which was used to train the
chatbots.
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