{"id":240619,"date":"2026-05-07T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/worries-about-ais-risks-to-humanity-loom-over-the-trial-pitting-musk-against-openais-leaders-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:10:09","slug":"worries-about-ais-risks-to-humanity-loom-over-the-trial-pitting-musk-against-openais-leaders-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/worries-about-ais-risks-to-humanity-loom-over-the-trial-pitting-musk-against-openais-leaders-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Worries about AI’s risks to humanity loom over the trial pitting Musk against OpenAI’s leaders :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worries about AI’s risks to humanity loom over the trial pitting Musk against OpenAI’s leaders :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-07 00:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 At the heart of the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a moment when they found common cause on an ever more pressing question: how to protect humanity from the risks of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

It turned sour, and the jury is charged with settling the ensuing legal dispute between the two Silicon Valley titans.<\/p>\n

But the unresolved questions about the dangers of AI have been looming over the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, since the trial began last week. The technology itself is not on trial \u2013 the judge has warned lawyers not to get \u201csidetracked\u201d by questions about its dangers \u2013 but witness testimony has touched on concerns around workforce disruptions and the prospect raised by Musk that superhuman AI might one day kill us all.<\/p>\n

Musk, the world’s richest person, filed the case accusing his fellow OpenAI co-founder of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit. Altman, in turn, accuses Musk of trying to hobble the ChatGPT maker for the benefit of his own AI company.<\/p>\n

One witness, AI pioneer Stuart Russell, said that the \u201cwinner take all\u201d power struggle over AI’s future is itself threatening humanity.<\/p>\n

Musk’s lawyers brought Russell to the stand as an expert witness, at the rate of $5,000 an hour. The University of California, Berkeley computer scientist listed a host of AI dangers, from racial and gender discrimination to jobs displacement, misinformation and emotional attachments that take some AI chatbot users down a spiral of psychosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhichever company develops AGI first would have a very big advantage\u201d and an increasingly big lead over…<\/p>\n

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