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Preston Gralla
Contributing Editor
The big winner in Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft — hypocrisy
May 27, 2026
Everyone involved in the recent legal fight wound u...
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Preston Gralla
Contributing Editor
The big winner in Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft — hypocrisy
May 27, 2026
Everyone involved in the recent legal fight wound up looking bad.
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If ever there were a lawsuit in which a jury and judge should have ruled against both the accuser
the defendants,
Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft
was it.
The high-profile legal battle pitted the world’s richest man against a company worth more than $3 trillion, another that might soon launch a $1 trillion IPO, and tech execs claiming to have only the good of the world in mind, not mere filthy lucre, while they develop a technology some fear could eventually destroy humankind.
The lawsuit was eventually thrown out, but only on technical grounds. Meanwhile, unregulated AI marches on, with Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft all getting richer.
The only winner in this suit was hypocrisy. Here’s why.
Back to the beginning
To understand how this unfolded, we need to go back to OpenAI’s beginnings. The company was founded by current CEO Sam Altman, Musk and others in 2015 — back when AI was a niche technology, used primarily for image and speech recognition, robotics, and experiments in self-driving cars.
The founders funded OpenAI out of their own pockets as a nonprofit company aimed at developing AI for the good of the world. Then, as the technology evolved, Altman, Musk and others grew worried it might become so powerful that, without serious guardrails, it could pose a danger to humans. They feared what might happen if AI reached the level of a super-powerful
artificial general intelligence (AGI)
system, superior to humans on a variety of tasks, with general problem-solving skills rather than narrowly targeted ones – and the ability to think for itself rather than heeding humans.
In an earlier version of Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft,
Musk put their fears this way
: “A.G.I. poses a gra
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