Илон Маск энэ долоо хоногт Окленд хотын Холбооны шүүхэд OpenAI болон тус компанийн гүйцэтгэх захирал Сэм Олтманы эсрэг үүсгэсэн маргааныхаа хүрээнд гэрчийн мэдүүлэг өглөө. OpenAI-ийн хуульч Уильям Савиттийн хөндлөнгийн байцаалтын үеэр 2017 онд өрнөсөн компанийн удирдлагын төлөөх тэмцэл болон Маскийн бусад компаниуд руугаа ажилтан татах оролдлоготой холбоотой нотлох баримтуудыг танилцуулсан юм.
Шүүхэд танилцуулсан имэйл захидлуудаас үзэхэд, 2017 онд Маск OpenAI-ийн ашгийн төлөөх салбарыг байгуулж, өөрөө удирдах зөвлөлийн гишүүдийн олонхыг томилох, хяналтын багцыг эзэмших санал гаргаж байжээ. Тухайн үед тэрээр “Би компанийн анхдагч хяналтыг бүрэн эзэмшинэ” гэж бичиж байсан бөгөөд үүнийг бусад үүсгэн байгуулагчид болох Сэм Олтман, Грэг Брокман болон Илья Сатскевер нар “нэг хүнд хэт их эрх мэдэл төвлөрүүлнэ” гэж үзэн татгалзсан байна.
Маск энэхүү тохиролцоонд хүрэхээс өмнө амласан санхүүжилтээ зогсоосон нь шүүх дээр нотлогдов. Тэрээр 2016 оноос хойш улирал бүр 5 сая доллар шилжүүлж байсан ч 2017 оны хавар үүнийг зогсоосон нь байгууллагын үйл ажиллагаанд хүнд цохилт болсон аж. Маск шүүх дээр мэдүүлэг өгөхдөө, тухайн үед OpenAI-ийг “Certain failure” буюу Google-ийн эсрэг ялагдах нь тодорхой зам руу орж байна гэж үзэж байснаа дурджээ.
Шүүх хурлын үеэр Маск OpenAI-ийн удирдах зөвлөлд байхдаа өөрийн эзэмшлийн “Tesla” болон “Neuralink” компаниуддаа OpenAI-аас судлаачдыг шилжүүлэн авахыг оролдож байсан имэйлүүд ил боллоо. Тухайлбал, “Tesla Vision”-ийг удирдуулахаар Андрей Карпатийг авсан үйлдлээ тэрээр “OpenAI-ийнхан намайг алах гээд байгаа, гэхдээ үүнийг хийх ёстой байсан” хэмээн тайлбарлаж байжээ. Мөн “Neuralink”-ийн хамтран үүсгэн байгуулагчид OpenAI-аас шууд ажилтан авахыг зааварчилж байсан байна.
Шүүгч Ивон Гонзалес Рожерс шүүх хурлын явцад Илон Маск болон OpenAI-ийн удирдлагуудад хандан, олон нийтийн сүлжээ (X) ашиглан шүүхийн гадна нөхцөл байдлыг хурцатгахгүй байхыг хатуу сануулсан юм. Тэрээр талуудыг “Сошиал медиа ашиглан шүүхийн гадна асуудлыг шийдэх гэж оролдох зуршлаа хяна” хэмээн сануулж, “Clean slate” буюу шинээр эхлэхийг уриалжээ.
Энэхүү шүүх хурал нь ашгийн бус зорилготой байгуулагдсан байгууллага ашгийн төлөөх бүтэц рүү шилжсэн нь хууль ёсны эсэх, мөн Илон Маскийн гаргасан 150 тэрбум долларын нөхөн төлбөрийн нэхэмжлэлийг шийдвэрлэхэд чухал ач холбогдолтой юм.
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Elon Musk returned to the witness stand on Wednesday to continue telling his side of the story in his legal battle against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Under cross-examination from OpenAI’s lawyers, Musk was pressed on all the ways he tried to squeeze the organization over a 2017 power struggle that he ultimately lost. Around this time, Musk tried to hire away OpenAI researchers and stopped sending it funding he had previously promised, according to emails presented as evidence in the case.
As the cross-examination began, tension rippled through the courtroom. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers started the day by reprimanding someone in the gallery for taking a picture of Musk. OpenAI’s president and cofounder, Greg Brockman, sat behind his lawyers with a yellow legal pad in his lap, giving Musk a cold stare as he testified. Musk grew visibly frustrated on the witness stand, pausing frequently to tell OpenAI’s lawyer, William Savitt, that he saw his questions as misleading. Meanwhile, Savitt’s cross-examination was derailed by objections, technical issues, and Musk continuously claiming he doesn’t recall key details of OpenAI’s history.
Savitt showed the courtroom emails from September 2017 between Musk, Altman, Brockman, and researcher Ilya Sutskever discussing the formation of what would become OpenAI’s for-profit arm. In the thread, Musk demanded the right to choose four members of its board of directors, giving him more voting power than his cofounders, who would be left with three in total. “I would unequivocally have initial control of the company, but this will change quickly,” said Musk in one message. Sutskever wrote back rejecting the idea because he said he feared it would give Musk too much power.
Months before these negotiations started, Musk had halted payments to OpenAI, which was particularly difficult for the organization because he was then its main source of funding. Since 2016, Musk had been sending $5 million payments to OpenAI quarterly as part of a broader $1 billion pledge he made at the organization’s launch. But in the spring of 2017, he stopped sending the money. In another email from August 2017, the head of Musk’s family office, Jared Birchall, asked Musk if he should continue withholding it. Musk responded simply, “Yes.”
In October 2017, shortly after Musk lost the power struggle, emails show that he held discussions with executives at Tesla and Neuralink, his brain-computer interface company, about hiring OpenAI employees. At the time, Musk was still a board member of OpenAI.
Musk sent an email to one Tesla vice president about hiring an early OpenAI researcher, Andrej Karpathy. “Just talked to Andrej and he accepted as joining as director of Tesla Vision,” Musk wrote. “Andrej is arguably the #2 guy in the world in computer vision…The openai guys are gonna want to kill me, but it had to be done.”
On the stand, Musk argued that Karpathy was already interested in leaving OpenAI when he tried to recruit him to Tesla. “Andrej had made his decision. If he’s going to leave OpenAI, he might as well work at Tesla,” Musk said.
That same month, Musk also wrote to Ben Rapoport, a cofounder of Neuralink. “Hire independently or directly from OpenAI,” said Musk. “I have no problem if you pitch people at OpenAI to work at Neuralink.”
When pressed about this by Savitt, Musk argued that it would have been illegal for him not to allow Tesla and Neuralink to hire from OpenAI. “It’s illegal to restrict employment. It would be illegal to say you can’t employ people from OpenAI. You can’t have some cabal that stops people from working at the company they want to work at,” Musk said.
