See, part of Musk’s contention in the trial is that he gave OpenAI all that money—which helped keep the lights on back in the day, even if it’s an incredibly tiny fraction of the kind of investments the Microsoft-backed firm gets now—because he’s genuinely worried about the Rise Of The Machines.

Elon Musk took the stand as the high-profile trial over the future of OpenAI kicked off on Tuesday — claiming that CEO Sam Altman took control of a group founded as a “charity” and improperly morphed it into a money-minting corporate juggernaut.

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, took the stand and testified over the course of three days in his trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged

The trial comes at a pivotal moment for AI, a technology poised to bring advancement that could also drastically reshape humanity.

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman addresses legal disputes over AI's risks and company control, highlighting broader concerns about artificial intelligence's future.

In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.