Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were destroying OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk has “really damaged” the culture of AI startups. During the testimony as part of Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAIAltman said Musk wanted OpenAI President Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to select researchers based on their achievements and “take a lot of saws.”

Altman agreed to this This was the management that the Tesla CEO was known forbut that it was contrary to its origin. “I don’t think Mr. Musk understood how to run a good research lab,” Altman testified when his attorney, William Savitt, asked about the effect of Musk’s departure from OpenAI on behavior. “For a research lab where you need people, emotional safety and a long time to follow through on an idea, this idea that you have to show your results all the time, and if it’s not good in a short period of time, you’re going to be fired. That didn’t work for the kind of research that we continued to do well.”

Altman added that Musk’s departure “was encouraging in some ways,” because his colleagues realized they no longer needed to “work like this.” Musk’s case says OpenAI has been abandoned his original purpose of benefiting the public and that Altman and Brockman persuaded him to provide the initial funding.