Elon Musk Hits OpenAI With "Breach Of Contract" Lawsuit For Abandoning Foundational Mission

Elon Musk claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday evening in the San Francisco Superior Court that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, among others, have breached the artificial intelligence startup's founding agreement that puts humanity over profits. 

"These events of 2023 constitute flagrant breaches of the Founding Agreement, which Defendants have essentially turned on its head. To this day, OpenAI, Inc.'s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI [artificial general intelligence technology] "benefits all of humanity,"" the lawsuit reads. 

It continues: "In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft. Under its new Board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity."