They would have broken the startup 's functional agreement and put generating profits before creating AI that "benefits all humanity."
Billionaire Elon Musk, owner of companies such as SpaceX, Tesla or the social network put the generation of profits before creating an AI that "benefits all humanity."
"To this day, OpenAI's website still states that its goal is to ensure that artificial intelligence 'benefits all of humanity.' However, OpenAI has actually become a de facto, closed-source subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft," according to the lawsuit filed to which Bloomberg has had access.
In this regard, the businessman of South African origin has pointed out in the complaint that Altman, Brockman, and Microsoft teamed up to expel the majority of the startup 's board that had been responsible for enforcing its original mission.
"Mr. Altman hand-picked a new board that lacks similar technical expertise or any substantial experience in AI governance that the previous board did have due to how it was configured," the document states, which maintains that the new members The governing body has profiles related to the business world or politics.
Altman was briefly ousted from his current position in November last year due to internal conflicts over the company's leadership. However, he resumed the position shortly after with the support of Microsoft.
Musk has reiterated his opinion on the creation of artificial general intelligence, which he has called an "existential threat" to humanity.
Thus, the tycoon recalled that when they created OpenAI in 2015, Altman, Brockman and Musk shared the idea of creating an AI laboratory that reflected in its statutes the non-profit nature and its open source nature. However, Musk disassociated himself from the project in 2018 and Microsoft became the main investor as of 2020.
Between the breach of contract, fiduciary duty and the unfair commercial practices that Musk alleges, is the creation of GPT-4, the engine that shapes ChatGPT, and whose design has been kept hidden, in opposition to the initial spirit of OpenAI . "This secrecy is based on purely commercial considerations, not security," the lawsuit says.
