Elon Musk VOWS response after jury dismisses lawsuit

A jury unanimously tossing out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying he didn't bring the suit in time to meet the statute of limitations. Elon Musk reacting to the ruling writing on XQuote regarding the OpenAI case. The judge and jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality. There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman and Brockman, another co-defendant, did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is when they did it. I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America. OpenAI was founded to benefit all of humanity. Former White House Chief Information Officer Theresa Payton joins us now. Theresa, thank you so much for joining us. So we just heard from Elon Musk there. Let's listen now to the lawyers representing Sam Altman and OpenAI. The evidence that Mr. Musk's lawsuit was an after the fact contrivance by a competitor was overwhelming. And the judge said to the jury, go see whether this is something that just came too late. And if it came too late, you can you can, of course, infer why. And if it did, let us know right away. And it didn't take them very long because the evidence was overwhelming. So now that the verdict is in, let's take 20 steps back and explain this case and why it matters. Yeah, well, what's interesting is Elon Musk lost in court for this, but he probably won in the court of public opinion because a lot of information came out as part of discovery for the court case. So what we know is, is that they started as a nonprofit. He was a major donor. He left. We know at some point Sam Altman was fired by OpenAI. Then he was brought back. And now they're a for profit company. And so what he's trying to say is, is like you started under false pretenses. You've changed what you're doing. And the court of public opinion says we're getting kind of concerned that AI is in the hands of few. And there's a lot of power behind AI, which means if only a few people are running AI, what does that mean for us? So what are the implications of this decision for the future of AI, assuming it does not get overturned on appeal and returned back to lower courts for a decision on the merits? Yeah, I assume any future court cases brought forward against OpenAI by Elon, I don't think he's going to win. That's my personal opinion. But I think what it ends up doing is it opens things up for the public to have a conversation, which is what is AI capable of? If you are an AI company, what are the governance and guardrails that need to exist? And what does that mean for the workforce in the future? Yeah. And Elon Musk did say that he would appeal so we can close this chapter, but we cannot close this book just yet. You're right. There's new chapters being written. All right, Theresa Payne, thank you so much for joining us.