So Elon Musk has sued OpenAI. What’s this all about?
The lawsuit centers on the breach of a founding agreement and OpenAI’s shift from non-profit to for-profit through partnerships with companies like Microsoft. It has been filed in state court in California and talks about the risks of artificial general intelligence (or AGI). It talks about how Musk worked with Sam Altman back in 2015 to form OpenAI for the public good. That was the so called “founding agreement” which also got written into the company’s certificate of incorporation. One of the most intriguing things about the lawsuit is that Musk is asking the court to determine that OpenAI is Artificial General Intelligence and thereby has gone outside the initial scope of the Founding Agreement.