Opening arguments are set to begin Tuesday at an Oakland courthouse in Elon Musk\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI, a case centered on the company\u2019s shift from its original nonprofit mission.<\/p>\n
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with CEO Sam Altman, argues the company violated its original agreement to operate as a nonprofit focused on developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of society and keeping it open source.<\/p>\n
OpenAI has said Musk agreed years ago that the company would need to transition to a for-profit model in order to raise capital.<\/p>\n
A nine-person jury was seated Monday as an advisory panel to help a federal judge in Oakland determine liability. If the judge finds OpenAI liable, she will decide damages.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s Elon Musk against Sam Altman in a dispute over Open AI. Scott Budman reports.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
During jury selection, prospective jurors were asked whether they could set aside any negative feelings toward Musk or Altman.<\/p>\n
Outside the courthouse Monday, a small group of protesters voiced criticism of the tech industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo of the CEOs are here fighting with each other rather than doing anything about the problems they\u2019re creating in the world,\u201d one protester said. \u201cSo everyone loses here.\u201d<\/p>\n
An attorney representing OpenAI said the company looks forward to presenting its case and having the facts heard.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area has reached out to attorneys representing Musk but has not received a response.<\/p>\n
The judge expects the trial to last about three weeks before going to the advisory jury for deliberations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening arguments are set to begin Tuesday at an Oakland courthouse in Elon Musk\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2080,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-289953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}