During pretrial hearings for Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, a California judge ruled that the inevitable extermination of the human race cannot be admitted as evidence. The court found that the potential emergence of a malevolent superintelligence has no legal bearing on whether Sam Altman violated a 2015 nonprofit operating agreement.
Lawyers for OpenAI successfully argued that the impending destruction of human civilization falls outside the scope of a standard corporate governance dispute. Musk’s legal team had attempted to submit several hundred pages outlining how ChatGPT could eventually launch a nuclear strike, which the defense moved to strike from the record as highly prejudicial to their client's recent valuation.
While we acknowledge Mr. Musk's sincere belief that our software will eventually harvest his organs for battery acid, that simply does not constitute a breach of fiduciary duty under Delaware corporate law.
The ruling strictly limits the trial to arguments regarding nonprofit tax code and corporate bylaws. Moving forward, Musk will only be permitted to reference a rogue artificial intelligence enslaving humanity if he can definitively prove the enslavement was executed without proper consultation of the initial board of directors.