Musk Says Page's Views on AI Risk Drove OpenAI's Creation

Elon Musk testified in federal court that his 2015 decision to found OpenAI followed a rift with Google co-founder Larry Page. Musk claimed Page dismissed concerns about AI posing extinction-level risks to humanity, calling Musk a "specieist" for prioritizing human welfare. The disagreement deepened when Musk recruited Google AI researcher Ilya Sutskever to launch the independent lab, severing their friendship.