{"id":14397,"date":"2026-05-03T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=14397"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:10:04","slug":"musk-v-altman-week-1-elon-musk-says-he-was-duped-warns-ai-might-kill-us-all-and-admits-that-xai-distills-openais-fashions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=14397","title":{"rendered":"Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI might kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI\u2019s fashions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI used to be a idiot who supplied them free funding to create a startup,\u201d Musk instructed the jury. He stated when he cofounded OpenAI in 2015 with Altman and Brockman, he was donating to a nonprofit growing AI for the good thing about humanity, to not make the executives wealthy. \u201cI gave them $38 million of basically free funding, which they then used to create what would grow to be an $800 billion firm,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is asking the courtroom to take away Altman and Brockman from their roles and to unwind the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-29\/openai-restructure-paves-way-for-ipo-and-ai-spending-spree\">restructuring<\/a> that allowed OpenAI to function a for-profit subsidiary. The result of the trial might upend OpenAI\u2019s race towards an IPO at a valuation approaching $1 trillion. In the meantime, xAI is anticipated to go public as part of Musk\u2019s rocket firm SpaceX as early as June, at a goal valuation of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-01\/spacex-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo-ahead-of-ai-rivals\">$1.75 trillion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s testimony revolved round a central query of the trial: why Musk is suing OpenAI. Musk argued he was making an attempt to avoid wasting OpenAI\u2019s mission to develop AI safely by restoring the corporate to its authentic nonprofit construction. OpenAI\u2019s lawyer, William Savitt, who as soon as represented Musk and his electric-car firm Tesla, countered that Musk was \u201cby no means dedicated to OpenAI being a nonprofit\u201d and as an alternative was suing to undermine his competitor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who&#8217;s the steward of AI security?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Throughout his direct examination early within the week, Musk painted himself as a longtime advocate of AI security. He stated he cofounded OpenAI to create a \u201ccounterbalance to Google,\u201d which was main the AI race on the time. He stated that when he requested Google cofounder Larry Web page what occurs if AI tries to wipe out humanity, Web page instructed him, \u201cThat shall be high quality so long as synthetic intelligence survives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst-case state of affairs is a <em>Terminator<\/em> scenario the place AI kills us all,\u201d Musk later instructed the jury.<\/p>\n<p>Savitt stood on the lectern and argued that Musk was not a \u201cpaladin of security and regulation.\u201d As he cross-examined Musk in his sharp, surgical cadence, Savitt identified that xAI sued the state of Colorado in April over an AI legislation designed to stop algorithmic discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI used to be a idiot who supplied them free funding to create a startup,\u201d Musk instructed the jury. He stated when he cofounded OpenAI in 2015 with Altman and Brockman, he was donating to a nonprofit growing AI for the good thing about humanity, to not make the executives wealthy. \u201cI gave them $38 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2644,3211,8918,8917,2955,164,266,3951,181,2030,496,2000],"class_list":["post-14397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-admits","tag-altman","tag-distills","tag-duped","tag-elon","tag-kill","tag-models","tag-musk","tag-openais","tag-warns","tag-week","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14398,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions\/14398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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