Elon Musk launches legal action against OpenAI accusing it of putting profits before transparency
ELON Musk has launched legal action against the world’s biggest AI firm — saying it is a danger to humanity.
The Tesla chief, 52, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, claimed it put profits before transparency.
In Californian documents, he accused OpenAI boss Sam Altman of a “stark betrayal” for signing a £9billion deal with Microsoft.
Mr Musk also said ChatGPT creators were working towards Artificial General Intelligence — when computers are smarter than people — without safeguarding.
He wrote: “OpenAI is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximise profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity.
“AGI is a grave threat to humanity.”
Microsoft is now the biggest investor in the company and last year supplied $10bn in funding to incorporate OpenAI’s GPT systems on the Bing browser.
The lawsuit claims that Musk, who quit OpenAI in 2018, contributed £100million in start-up funding.
Mr Musk now runs rival chatbot firm xAI alongside the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.
OpenAI and Microsoft were approached for comment.