Musk v. Altman

EPOCHAL LAWSUIT OVER
ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
LANDS IN SAN FRANCISCO

By Joe Dworetzky ❡ Bay City News

The most important lawsuit in the history of the world was filed Thursday in the Superior Court of San Francisco County. ❡ At least that is how this report would begin were it written in the style of the lawsuit Elon Musk has brought against Sam Altman and OpenAI, Inc. the creators of ChatGPT. ❡ Visionary inventor and thinker (Musk) discovered that a dark lord (Larry Page of Google) had hatched a plot to acquire DeepMind, a research group full of world class scientists attempting to build “artificial general intelligence” or AGI.

Allowed to fall into the wrong hands, AGI might bring about the destruction of mankind, a lawsuit claims. (DALL-E)

AGI is to artificial intelligence what a computer is to an abacus. If AI allows a computer to do specific reasoning-based tasks better than humans, AGI will allow a computer to do all or most reasoning-based tasks better than humans. AGI in the wrong hands, Musk believes, will be the end of the humankind.

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.