Former OpenAI employee submits legal brief to voice support for Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI

According to Fortune, over 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 non-profit 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 corporate profits. OpenAI and Altman have denied these allegations. In the documents submitted to the federal court on Friday, these former employees claimed that depriving non-profit organizations of control would "fundamentally violate" the company's mission as it would lose oversight over for-profit development entities. These former employees who have held technical and leadership positions in the company say that the supervision of non-profit organizations is crucial to the overall strategy of the company, and this structure also helps with recruitment. Many employees are motivated by the mission of non-profit organizations to join.