Former OpenAI employee files legal brief in support of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI

On April 12, according to Fortune, more than a dozen former employees of OpenAI filed a legal brief Friday in support of co-founder Musk's lawsuit aimed at maintaining the company's nonprofit status. Last year, Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing OpenAI of deviating from its founding mission of developing artificial intelligence for human benefit rather than corporate profit. OpenAI and Altman denied the allegations. In Friday's filing in federal court, the former employees argued that stripping the nonprofit of control would be "fundamentally contrary" to the company's mission because it would lose oversight of the for-profit development entity. The former employees, who have held technology and leadership positions at the company, say that nonprofit oversight is critical to the company's overall strategy, and that the structure also helps with hiring, with many employees motivated by the nonprofit's mission.