Taking the stand in his breach-of-contract lawsuit, Elon Musk explained to a jury that the artificial intelligence lab had catastrophically deviated from its core objective of being wholly owned by Elon Musk.
During his first week of testimony in San Francisco, Musk described the early days of the AI startup, emphasizing his selfless desire to act as the sole, unquestioned arbiter of artificial general intelligence. Legal analysts noted that Musk's attorneys faced significant hurdles in explaining how OpenAI's current corporate structure differs meaningfully from the one Musk himself proposed in 2018, other than the distinct absence of Musk at the helm.
Mr. Musk is making a very complex legal argument that a non-profit cannot legally transition into a lucrative, closed-source enterprise unless he is the specific individual cashing the checks.
Musk's legal team closed the week by introducing evidence that humanity's only remaining hope against a dystopian machine uprising is for the court to immediately transfer all of OpenAI's intellectual property to xAI, Musk's own recently launched artificial intelligence startup.