OpenAI Is Shedding Baggage. Now It Needs a Jury’s Help

In attempting to find a jury in the case of Musk v. Altman, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers chose to widen the pool of potential candidates for selection. That figures: To many Californians, being asked to side with either Elon Musk or Sam Altman is like deciding between getting a slap in the face or a knee to the groin.

But decide they must, and their decision will have profound consequences for OpenAI and the broader artificial-intelligence landscape. Altman is accused of illegally converting OpenAI from nonprofit to for-profit. Musk is demanding that the structure be reverted, that Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman be removed as executive officers and that the company pay him $134 billion in damages — funds he said he would donate to the reformed nonprofit.