{"id":669995,"date":"2026-05-15T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669995\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:01:08","slug":"behold-the-elon-musk-jackass-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669995\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman\u2019s team passed up what looked \u2014 from a distance \u2014 like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers read the inscription aloud for the press: \u201cNever stop being a jackass.\u201d It\u2019s a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for research scientist Josh Achiam, who testified yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">How exactly did this come up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/917755\/musk-altman-openai-xai-gossip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a trial about nonprofit contract law<\/a>? Allegedly, when Elon Musk was leaving OpenAI, he talked about wanting to race ahead of Google. Achiam, who worked on AI safety, asked if that was really such a good idea. Musk called him a jackass. Years later, Musk is portraying his lawsuit as an attempt to avoid AI causing serious harm \u2014 something that, Altman\u2019s team suggests, wasn\u2019t high on his list of concerns back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">During his own direct testimony, Musk denied the incident took place, saying that he might have said something like, \u201cDon\u2019t be a jackass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YGR ruled that the jurors would not get to see the trophy unless Musk\u2019s team gave OpenAI a reason to introduce it, so they only heard about it. But now you can see it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Correction, May 14th: The researcher is Josh Achiam, not Ackiam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman\u2019s team passed up what looked \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62,45,49,48,250,278,64],"class_list":["post-669995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elon-musk","tag-openai","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}