{"id":184109,"date":"2024-03-01T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/elon-musk-sues-openai-for-abandoning-its-mission-to-benefit-humanity"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:51:59","slug":"elon-musk-sues-openai-for-abandoning-its-mission-to-benefit-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/elon-musk-sues-openai-for-abandoning-its-mission-to-benefit-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning its mission to benefit humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-sues-openai-for-abandoning-its-mission-to-benefit-humanity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk claims OpenAI is using GPT-4 to \u2018maximize profits\u2019 instead of \u2018for the benefit of humanity.\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The lawsuit claims that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/3\/15\/23640047\/openai-gpt-4-differences-capabilties-functions\">GPT-4 model OpenAI released<\/a> in March 2023 isn\u2019t just capable of reasoning but is also actually \u201cbetter at reasoning than average humans,\u201d having scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Examination for lawyers. The company is rumored to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/22\/23973354\/a-recent-openai-breakthrough-on-the-path-to-agi-has-caused-a-stir\">developing a more advanced model<\/a>, known as \u201cQ Star,\u201d that has a stronger claim to being true artificial general intelligence (AGI).<\/p>\n<p>Altman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/29\/23982046\/sam-altman-interview-openai-ceo-rehired\">was fired<\/a> (and subsequently rehired five days later) by OpenAI in 2023 over <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/openai-announces-leadership-transition\">vague claims<\/a> that his communication with the board was \u201chindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.\u201d The lawsuit filed by Musk alleges that in the days following this event, Altman, Brockman, and Microsoft \u201cexploited Microsoft\u2019s significant leverage over OpenAI\u201d to replace board members with handpicked alternatives that were better approved of by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new Board members lack substantial AI expertise and, on information and belief, are ill equipped by design to make an independent determination of whether and when OpenAI has attained AGI \u2014 and hence when it has developed an algorithm that is outside the scope of Microsoft\u2019s license,\u201d claims the lawsuit. The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft is currently being examined by regulators in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/12\/8\/23993302\/the-uks-antitrust-watchdog-has-eyes-on-microsofts-partnership-with-openai\">UK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/9\/24031256\/eu-regulators-join-uk-in-examining-microsofts-openai-partnership\">EU<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c3e8acee-536a-47c2-9322-464d14c51053\">US<\/a> to assess if their shared relationship impacts competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk claims OpenAI is using GPT-4 to \u2018maximize profits\u2019 instead of \u2018for the benefit of humanity.\u2019 The lawsuit claims that the GPT-4 model OpenAI released in March 2023 isn\u2019t just capable of reasoning but is also actually \u201cbetter at reasoning than average humans,\u201d having scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Examination [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1495,41,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-health","category-information-science","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}