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A few months Before Elon Musk left the OpenAI board in February 2018, he tried to recruit Sam Altman to join a “world-class AI lab” within Tesla. Musk went so far as to offer the OpenAI CEO a seat on Tesla’s board, according to Emails The testimony was presented in federal court on Wednesday during Musk v. Altman trial. The emails were shown to the jury during their questioning Chiffon zillisa former OpenAI consultant and board member, is also the mother of four of Musk’s children.
Musk’s primary claim in this lawsuit is that Altman and the head of OpenAI Greg Brockman He effectively ripped off a non-profit, using the $38 million Musk had invested to create a private company that today is worth more than $800 billion. On Wednesday, Musk’s lawyers showed video depositions of OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Moratti and former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, for raising concerns about Altman The alleged date to deception.
OpenAI’s legal team responded to Musk’s claims by questioning his true motives, arguing that the Tesla CEO has had “sour grapes” since he took office. Failed to take control from OpenAI in 2017. He has since set up a for-profit AI competition lab. OpenAI’s lawyers used cross-examination of Zilis on Wednesday to present evidence about Musk’s alleged plans to sabotage OpenAI, and tried to suggest that Zilis was privy to those plans. In relation to this case, one of Zilis’ most important roles at OpenAI was to act as a conduit between Musk and Altman.
in text From a February 2018 submission into evidence, Zillis — who was then an advisor to OpenAI, as well as an executive at Neuralink and Tesla — asked Altman, “Have you thought through Tesla’s B Corp?”
“There was documented evidence that Mr. Musk was at several points considering joining Sam Altman on the board and offered that option,” William Savitt, an attorney for OpenAI, said outside the courtroom on Wednesday. “It was part of Mr. Musk’s efforts to subvert OpenAI and absorb it into Tesla… He was trying to convince Altman to abandon the mission and be part of Tesla.”
in Email To Tesla’s Vice President of Communications, Sarah O’Brien, As of November 2017, Zilis shared a draft of an FAQ page about an event Tesla was planning to hold at the NeurIPS AI conference. “The purpose of this event is to share that Tesla is building a world-leading AI (?) lab that will rival the likes of Google/DeepMind and Facebook AI Research,” the drafted FAQ reads. “One of the key issues facing Tesla is that when people think of Elon and AI, they think of OpenAI,” the document continues.
Another part of the FAQ is titled “Who?” It lists several Tesla executives slated to lead the unit, including Musk and Andrej Karpathy, a former OpenAI researcher. The name “Altman” is listed next to the name “Musk” with two question marks next to it.
The FAQ is tagged with notes including that Altman could be a moderator of the NeurIPS event, which “may serve as a job that forces Sam to commit to TeslaAI.” Another note notes that “Tesla’s AI strategy has not yet been determined, and some may be proprietary.”
Zillis testified Wednesday that Altman never ended up joining Tesla, and that the AI lab and NeurIPS launch event never came to fruition. It also testified that Musk approached Karpathy about recruiting him to Tesla. Savitt told reporters that Zillis’ testimony about Karpathy “directly contradicts what Mr. Musk told the jury just a few days ago.” Earlier in this trial, Musk testified that Karpathy left OpenAI of his own volition.