Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it's up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it's transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization. But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, and I noted on the latest episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, a big theme in the trial's final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy ' for example, Musk's attorney Steve Molo grilled Altman about whether statements he'd made during congressional testimony were truthful. 'This is a fundamental question [for] a lot of tech journalists, policymakers, and more and more consumers, about all the AI labs,' she said. 'It's really come down to trust, because we don't have the insight, necessarily ' these are all privately held companies, there's a lot behind the veil still.' Anthony Ha: [The end of the trial] led to this really provocative headline from one of our writers, Tim Fernholz, [that] just says, 'Who trusts Sam Altman''...
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