Former OpenAI employees submit legal briefs in support of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI

According to ChainCatcher, as reported by Fortune, a dozen former employees of OpenAI submitted a legal brief on 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 the benefit of humanity rather than for corporate profit. OpenAI and Altman have denied these allegations. In the documents submitted to the federal court on Friday, these former employees stated that stripping control from the nonprofit organization would "fundamentally contradict" the company's mission, as it would lose oversight of the for-profit development entity. These former employees, who held technical and leadership positions in the company, claimed that nonprofit oversight is crucial to the overall strategy of the company, and this structure also aids in recruitment, as many employees were motivated to join by the nonprofit's mission.