Elon Musk accused a lawyer for OpenAI of repeatedly trying to trick him during a tense cross-examination at a trial that may determine the future of the artificial intelligence company that built ChatGPT.
Musk's lawsuit alleges OpenAI ditched its mission to build artificial intelligence for the public good, and he is seeking billions of dollars and a change in management and direction for OpenAI, which says Musk knew exactly what was going on and was angry he was not made CEO.
William Savitt, a lawyer for OpenAI, told Musk his questions about the tax benefits of his $38 million in donations to OpenAI and the company's corporate structure were meant to be simple, and that Musk's responses should be as well.
'Your questions are not simple. They're designed to trick me,' Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, told a nine-person jury in Oakland, California, federal court.
The heated exchange came after Musk, over two days of questioning by his own lawyer, accused OpenAI, its co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman, and its President Greg Brockman of promising to build a nonprofit to develop AI responsibly, before pivoting to create a for-profit entity in 2019 to enrich themselves.
