Altman: Musk Wanted OpenAI Passed to His Children

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified against Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging the company's shift to a for-profit structure. Altman dismissed Musk's claim that founders stole a charity, saying OpenAI created one of the world's largest charitable foundations. He revealed a striking moment when Musk suggested OpenAI could pass to his children if he died. Altman also accused Musk of damaging OpenAI's research culture by forcing stack rankings and mass cuts among key researchers. He argued Musk's management style, suited to engineering firms, was ill-fitted for a research lab, and that Musk's desire for control contradicted OpenAI's mission to prevent any single person from dominating advanced AI.