Jury rejected Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI founders; trial revealed Musk himself had benefited from OpenAI resources for Tesla's autopilot work

A jury swiftly rejected Musk's lawsuit claiming OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman committed 'breach of charitable trust' and 'unjust enrichment' by using Musk's charitable donations for a for-profit venture instead of AGI safety research.

Court testimony showed that in 2017, Musk asked OpenAI researchers—including Andrej Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, and Scott Grey—to consult with Tesla's autopilot team for several weeks; Tesla did not reimburse OpenAI for their time and effort. OpenAI's attorneys argued this violated Musk's duty as co-chair of the board by recruiting key researchers to his for-profit company.

Dorothy Lund, a Columbia Law School professor, told TechCrunch that Musk's arrangement with OpenAI researchers 'wouldn't be legal,' calling it 'a bit rich for Musk to be suing for breach of a charitable trust, when he appears to have been redirecting assets in a way that was inconsistent with that mission.'