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Elon Musk demands control as a "hereditary" right: Altman reveals details of the split back then
According to Beating Monitoring, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in federal court for the first time on Tuesday, revealing secret details about Elon Musk’s exit from OpenAI’s core decision-making circle in 2018: rather than the publicly claimed “ideological differences,” Musk’s extreme desire for control was the real trigger.
Altman testified that Musk had insisted on turning OpenAI into a subsidiary of Tesla at that time. When other founders questioned, “What happens to the company if you hold all the power and pass away?” Musk’s answer was, “Maybe I should pass it on to my children.” Altman described this proposal as “chilling.” Due to a consensus that “no single person should control AGI,” the founding team rejected Musk’s takeover plan.
After being rejected, Musk cut off his regular quarterly donations of $5 million early in 2018 and boasted in an email: without him, OpenAI’s chances of success are “not 1%, but 0%.” Altman countered that Musk doesn’t understand how to manage a research lab and often pressures researchers by ranking them; the day he was ultimately ousted, it actually “boosted OpenAI’s morale.”
Musk attempted to use this lawsuit to accuse OpenAI of stealing from a charitable organization, but Altman’s testimony shot that down: who was the person that, for failing to privatize and family-ify AGI, walked away in frustration?