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Over the next six weeks, Brockman said, Musk and the other cofounders had intense discussions about creating a for-profit entity to raise enough capital to build artificial general intelligence\u2014powerful AI that can compete with humans on most cognitive tasks. Musk wanted to have majority equity in the entity and the right to choose a majority of the board members. He also wanted to be its CEO, said Brockman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brockman testified that in August 2017, he and other cofounders gathered to hash out the terms of the for-profit structure. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI\u2019s chief scientist at the time, arrived bearing a painting of a Tesla as a \u201ctoken of goodwill\u201d in return for the actual Teslas Musk had given them days earlier. \u201cIt felt a little bit like [Musk] was buttering us up, right,that he wanted us to feel indebted to him,\u201d Brockman told the jury.<\/p>\n
When Brockman and Sutskever proposed that they all have equal shares of equity, said Brockman, Musk fell silent and finally said, \u201cI decline.\u201d Musk then stood up and \u201cstormed around the table,\u201d he said. \u201cI actually thought he was going to hit me.\u201d Musk grabbed the painting and walked out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brockman said that afterwards he struggled to decide whether to continue building OpenAI with Musk or break away. \u201cThere was a fork in the road,\u201d he said. \u201cDo we accept Elon\u2019s terms? Or do we reject the terms, he quits to create his own, and then we create our own?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing we could not accept was to hand him unilateral, absolute control, potentially, over the AGI,\u201d Brockman told the jury.<\/p>\n
In his theatrical baritone, Molo argued that Brockman was motivated by greed rather than a commitment to OpenAI\u2019s nonprofit mission to develop AI that benefits humanity. He noted that while Brockman never invested money in the company, he now owns a stake worth close to $30 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSolving for the mission has always been my primary motivation,\u201d Brockman said, pushing back on Molo\u2019s characterization of him. \u201cIt remains so today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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