Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
Key takeaways
- Lawyers for Elon Musk and Open AI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether Open AI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization.
- Kirsten noted that Musk has made plenty of misleading statements of his own, and that trust isn’t just an issue for Altman.
- “This is a fundamental question [for] a lot of tech journalists, policymakers, and more and more consumers, about all the AI labs,” she said.
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Lawyers for Elon Musk and Open AI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether Open AI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization.
But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the latest episode of Tech Crunch’s Equity podcast, a big theme in the trial’s final days was whether Open AI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy — for example, Musk’s attorney Steve Molo grilled Altman about whether statements he’d made during congressional testimony were truthful.
Kirsten noted that Musk has made plenty of misleading statements of his own, and that trust isn’t just an issue for Altman.