Musk Weighed Offering Altman Tesla Board Seat, Jury Told

Sam Altman inside the federal court in Oakland, California, on May 4.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Elon Musk at one point considered recruiting Sam Altman to serve on Tesla Inc.’s board of directors, jurors were told Wednesday at the trial over the feud between the two titans of artificial intelligence.

Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member and confidante of Musk, testified “there was a time where that was on the table” around late 2017.