Elon Musk on Wednesday accused a lawyer for Sam Altman of trying to trick him during a tense cross-examination at a high-stakes trial over Musk’s lawsuit alleging OpenAI ditched its mission to build artificial intelligence for the public good.
William Savitt, a lawyer for OpenAI, told Musk his questions about the tax benefits Musk reaped by donating $38 million to OpenAI were simple, and that Musk’s responses should be as well. “Your questions are not simple. They’re designed to trick me,” Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, told a nine-person jury in Oakland, California, federal court.