In Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, a former safety team lead testified that the company shifted from research-focused to product-focused, compromising its AI safety commitment.

Rosie Campbell, who joined OpenAI's AGI readiness team in 2021 and left in 2024 after her team was disbanded, testified in federal court in Oakland, California that the company's efforts to push AI products into the marketplace compromised its commitment to AI safety. She also noted that the Super Alignment team was shut down in the same period.

Campbell cited an incident where Microsoft deployed a version of GPT-4 in India through Bing search before the model had been evaluated by OpenAI's Deployment Safety Board, saying the company needed 'to set strong precedents as the technology gets more powerful' and maintain reliable safety processes.

Board member Tasha McCauley testified about a pattern of CEO Sam Altman misleading the board, including lying about her intention to remove board member Helen Toner and failing to disclose the decision to launch ChatGPT publicly, undermining the non-profit board's ability to oversee the for-profit subsidiary. McCauley said the board's failure to influence the for-profit organization supported Musk's argument that OpenAI broke its founders' implicit agreement by transforming from a research organization into one of the largest private companies in the world.