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. The lawsuit, which Musk filed in a San Francisco court on Thursday, February 29, says that OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft would for the former mean that it has become a "closed-source de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft, focused on profit maximization.

According to the lawsuit, such conduct constitutes a violation of the original agreement between Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and today no longer has a stake in the company, Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman. All together should commit to making the OpenAI project non-profit and the associated technology open source. Those violations include keeping the design of the OpenAI GPT-4 model a "total secret," with Musk saying in the lawsuit that the decision was "primarily driven by commercial considerations rather than security" and that the GPT-4 model 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 still remember how Musk was critical of the development of artificial intelligence and the potential impact it could have on society, even before he decided to participate in the OpenAI project. He made it very clear and loud that he wanted safety levers to be used to prevent AI systems from replacing humans. Last year, Musk, together with many researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, signed an open letter addressed to companies to stop "big UI experiments". He later founded his own UI company and developed a UI bot within the X social network.

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

Let's also remember that Altman was fired by OpenAI last year (and then rehired five days later) for not the most clear reasons, namely that his communication with the administration "impeded his ability to carry out his responsibilities." The lawsuit filed by Musk alleges that in the days following that event, Altman, Brockman and Microsoft "used Microsoft's influence over OpenAI" and replaced board members with Microsoft-backed alternatives.