In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk expressed his distrust of OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk claimed that it is undesirable for the world's most powerful artificial intelligence to be in the hands of people he says are untrustworthy. This year, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging "deceptions of Shakespearean proportions" and raising humanitarian concerns about AI control.
"I don't trust OpenAI and Sam Altman. I don't think we want to have the most powerful AI in the world controlled by someone who is not trustworthy."
一 Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/F4s9MTpu4e - DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 8, 2024
Recent changes at OpenAI
In recent months, OpenAI has undergone significant leadership changes. Three senior executives, including CTO Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob McCrew, and VP of Research Barret Zoph, have resigned from the company. In addition, co-founder Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI to found his own company, while another co-founder, Durk Kingma, joined Anthropic AI, a company with which he says he shares more ideological alignment. These moves have generated uncertainty about the direction of OpenAI and have stoked criticism of Musk, who continues to express doubts about the ethics and intentions behind the company's development of artificial intelligence.
Although Sam Altman continues to lead the company, recent changes to its leadership team could affect its ability to continue to compete in an increasingly challenging field, where control of AI is a topic of growing global debate. Musk has been a consistent critic of unregulated AI development, and these recent events appear to have exacerbated his concerns about the future of this technology in the hands of OpenAI.