AI BriefingMusk Attempted to Recruit OpenAI Staff to Tesla
Key point
Court evidence has revealed that Elon Musk attempted to recruit OpenAI's founders to an AI lab within Tesla in 2018.
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During the ongoing legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI, evidence has emerged that Musk attempted to recruit OpenAI's founding team to Tesla in 2018.
The key elements of Musk's proposal at the time were as follows:
- Recruit Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to Tesla
- Fold OpenAI into Tesla as a subsidiary, or appoint Altman to the board
According to court testimony and emails, Musk judged in late 2017 that OpenAI's nonprofit model had limits in building AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and explored setting up his own AI lab inside Tesla.
OpenAI's legal team argues that Musk was not opposed to OpenAI's transition to for-profit status itself, but rather wanted that transition to happen under his own direct control. Musk is currently suing OpenAI over its conversion from a charitable organization to a for-profit company, which he says excluded him.
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