{"id":33121,"date":"2025-02-12T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T09:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/elon-musk-owning-openai-would-be-a-terrible-idea-that-doesnt-mean-it-wont-happen-chris-stokel-walker\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T09:01:30","slug":"elon-musk-owning-openai-would-be-a-terrible-idea-that-doesnt-mean-it-wont-happen-chris-stokel-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/elon-musk-owning-openai-would-be-a-terrible-idea-that-doesnt-mean-it-wont-happen-chris-stokel-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk owning OpenAI would be a terrible idea. That doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t happen | Chris Stokel-Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart says he is settling scores and making mischief. My head fears Trump might like an ally controlling the key AI company<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and Sam Altman aren\u2019t exactly the best of friends. The two had a blowout argument over the future direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> \u2013 the company they came together to found in 2015 \u2013 with Altman seemingly content to pursue a for-profit approach and Musk feeling that was forswearing the founding principles of the firm as well as its name. OpenAI couldn\u2019t be open, he reckoned, if it was closed off and trying to make money rather than better humanity.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s no surprise that Musk, who lodged an audacious bid to take over Twitter a little more than two years ago, which ended up with his ownership of the platform now called X, has sought to put a spoiler in two years of near-untrammelled growth for OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/12\/elon-musk-owning-openai-trump-ai-sam-altman\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart says he is settling scores and making mischief. My head fears Trump might like an ally controlling the key AI company Elon Musk and Sam Altman aren\u2019t exactly the best of friends. The two had a blowout argument over the future direction of OpenAI \u2013 the company they came together to found in &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk owning OpenAI would be a terrible idea. That doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t happen | Chris Stokel-Walker\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/elon-musk-owning-openai-would-be-a-terrible-idea-that-doesnt-mean-it-wont-happen-chris-stokel-walker\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk owning OpenAI would be a terrible idea. That doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t happen | Chris Stokel-Walker\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}