Elon Musk says OpenAI abandoned its mission to protect humanity. But is his own A.I. crusade against the “woke mind virus” any better?

By Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Few people are as bullish about the future of A.I. as Elon Musk. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in the opening of his bitter legal battle against OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman and others as a nonprofit committed to developing A.I. for the benefit of humanity. The Tesla and SpaceX C.E.O. contributed nearly $40 million but ultimately left the organization in 2018 after a power struggle with Altman. OpenAI’s subsequent evolution into a for-profit entity is the stated reason for the current lawsuit. Musk claims that OpenAI, now valued READ ON