Twelve former OpenAI employees have asked a federal judge for permission to weigh in on Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and the company. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig filed the motion today on behalf of the ex-employees, whose detailed amicus brief accuses OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit roots and betraying the mission that originally attracted them to the organization.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, its CEO, Sam Altman, and others, claiming that they betrayed the nonprofit mission that he helped establish back when OpenAI was founded in 2015. This week, OpenAI countersued Elon Musk over claims he has tried “nonstop” to slow down its business for his own benefit. The lawsuit said Musk has used “bad-faith tactics” against OpenAI to help him control AI technology.
