Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits . In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court on Friday, Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public