Elon Musk grilled over his AI profits

Elon Musk sparred with lawyers for a third day Thursday at his California trial against OpenAI, struggling to explain why his own for-profit AI empire differs from the one he is trying to take down.

“Few answers are going to be complete, especially when you cut me off all the time,” the visibly irritated multi-billionaire said as he resumed his duel Thursday with defence attorney for OpenAI William Savitt.

William sought to demonstrate that Musk is a mirror image of what he denounces: all of his companies ––– Tesla, Neuralink, X and his own AI firm xAI, recently absorbed into SpaceX –– are for-profit, and the entrepreneur himself presents them as beneficial to humanity.

“There’s nothing wrong with having a for-profit organisation,” Musk said, repeating his mantra: “You just can’t steal a charity”, meaning OpenAI should simply have started as a normal company from the outset.

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