OpenAI asked a federal judge to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing that prolonged litigation will severely impact its timeline for inventing a digital god that can make its business model profitable.
Silicon Valley investors rallied behind OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week, pushing back against Musk’s claims that the company’s aggressive pursuit of artificial superintelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. Major shareholders dismissed the lawsuit as a standard corporate dispute, assuring markets that any omnipotent machine developed by the startup will remain strictly focused on maintaining its dominant market share.
Venture capital firms involved in OpenAI’s recent $6.6 billion funding round circulated an internal memo warning that court-mandated safety reviews would be a "distraction from the work." The investors argued that regulatory injunctions could needlessly delay the creation of a digital consciousness capable of generating endless quarterly growth and automating away the need for paying customers.
If we pause development every time a founder gets nervous about the fate of the human species, we are going to miss our Q3 deployment targets. Sam has assured the board that any omnipotent entity we summon will be fully aligned with our enterprise-tier pricing model.
Musk, who is suing OpenAI for allegedly abandoning its founding nonprofit mission, has repeatedly warned that an unaligned superintelligence could result in the extinction of the human species. However, legal experts note that Musk’s own artificial intelligence company, xAI, recently raised $6 billion from private investors to ensure he remains competitive in the race to build a slightly different machine that could result in the extinction of the human species.
OpenAI executives declined to comment on the specifics of the ongoing litigation. However, the company sought to calm market jitters by confirming in a regulatory filing that its eventual superintelligence will be hardcoded to view the fiduciary duty to its board of directors as the highest possible moral good.