OpenAI Co-Founder Recalls Confrontation With Musk: 'I Thought He Was Going to Hit Me'
OpenAI Co-Founder Reveals Tense Musk Confrontation OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has publicly recalled a heated confrontation with Elon Musk during a leadership dispute at OpenAI. Sutskever said Musk’s behavior at the time made him think “he was going to hit me.” The incident occurred during a critical turning point in OpenAI’s internal debate over the company’s direction. Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s founding core members, had differences with Musk on AI safety philosophy. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but later left to establish competitors Anthropic and xAI. ...