Elon Musk with a lawsuit against OpenAI, because it should stop working for the benefit of humanity

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly abandoning their original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. Musk claims they put profit first. V lawsuits, which Musk filed in a San Francisco court on Thursday, February 29, says that OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft allegedly means that the former has become a "closed-source de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft, focused on maximizing profits.

According to the lawsuit, this behavior violates the original agreement between Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and no longer has a stake in the company, Altman, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman. They all allegedly committed to keeping the OpenAI project non-profit and the underlying technology open source. These violations include keeping the design of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model “completely secret,” with Musk saying in the lawsuit that this decision was “primarily driven by commercial considerations, not security,” and that GPT-4 is now “de facto Microsoft’s own algorithm.”

The lawsuit aims to force OpenAI to return to its original intentions and agreements that will put the benefit of humanity first and not Altman, Brockman and Microsoft, the world's largest technology company.

You probably remember how critical Musk was of the development of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society even before he decided to participate in the OpenAI project. He was very clear and loud in his desire to use safeguards that would prevent AI systems from replacing humans. Last year, Musk, along with a number of AI researchers, signed an open letter to companies to stop “large-scale AI experiments.” He later founded his own AI company and developed an AI bot within the social network X.

The lawsuit also claims that the GPT-4 model, released in March 2023, is not only capable of reasoning, but is actually better than average people at it, having scored 90 percent on the Unified Bar Examination. The company is said to be developing a more advanced model known as “Q Star,” which is said to be the first true general artificial intelligence model.

Let's also recall that Altman was fired by OpenAI last year (and then rehired five days later) for unclear reasons, namely that his communication with the board "impeded his ability to carry out his responsibilities." The lawsuit filed by Musk states that in the days following this event, Altman, Brockman, and Microsoft "took advantage of Microsoft's influence over OpenAI" and replaced board members with alternatives that were supported by Microsoft.