All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman
All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman
马斯克诉奥特曼案：迄今为止披露的所有证据
Emails going as far back as 2015 give a glimpse into the foundations of OpenAI and the early tensions at the company. 追溯至 2015 年的电子邮件，让我们得以一窥 OpenAI 的创立基础以及该公司早期的紧张关系。
The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI — and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI’s mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever worried about Musk’s level of control over the company, and Musk highlighted the importance of a nonprofit with a mission of broadly beneficial AI. 马斯克诉奥特曼案的庭审正在进行中，这意味着作为呈堂证供的证据正在被逐一披露。到目前为止，OpenAI 早期——甚至在该人工智能实验室尚未命名之前——的电子邮件往来、照片和公司文件正在流传。一些核心要点包括：英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋曾向 OpenAI 提供了一台紧俏的超级计算机；马斯克在很大程度上起草了 OpenAI 的使命，并对其早期结构产生了重大影响；OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼似乎希望在早期阶段严重依赖 Y Combinator 的支持；OpenAI 总裁格雷格·布罗克曼和伊利亚·苏茨克维曾担心马斯克对公司的控制程度；马斯克则强调了建立一个以造福全人类为使命的非营利组织的重要性。
Musk’s buzzy lawsuit, which began its jury trial on Monday in a federal courtroom in California, names Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI investor Microsoft as defendants. It accuses them of breaching the company’s charitable trust, fraud, and unjust enrichment, but ultimately, Musk’s lawsuit boils down to whether or not OpenAI deviated from its founding mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence — an often vaguely defined term that denotes AI systems that equal or surpass human intelligence — benefits all of humanity. It’s the latest in a yearslong string of legal actions against OpenAI and its executives by Musk, who cofounded the AI lab alongside Altman and Brockman and was an early investor. 马斯克这起备受关注的诉讼于周一在加利福尼亚州的一家联邦法院开始陪审团审判，被告包括奥特曼、布罗克曼以及 OpenAI 的投资者微软。诉讼指控他们违反了公司的慈善信托、存在欺诈行为以及不当得利。但归根结底，马斯克的诉讼核心在于 OpenAI 是否背离了其创立使命，即确保通用人工智能（这是一个定义模糊的术语，指代能够达到或超越人类智能的 AI 系统）能够造福全人类。这是马斯克针对 OpenAI 及其高管多年来一系列法律行动中的最新一起，马斯克曾与奥特曼和布罗克曼共同创立了该实验室，并曾是其早期投资者。
Former OpenAI employees and people close to both companies have been watching this particular lawsuit with a close eye, since the outcome of a jury trial could have affected how OpenAI runs its business and controls its quickly advancing technology. Plus, OpenAI and SpaceX are both reportedly racing to go public this year, so they’re more in the public eye than ever. 前 OpenAI 员工以及与两家公司关系密切的人士一直在密切关注这起诉讼，因为陪审团的审判结果可能会影响 OpenAI 的业务运营及其对快速发展技术的控制方式。此外，据报道 OpenAI 和 SpaceX 今年都在竞相上市，因此它们比以往任何时候都更受公众关注。
The lawsuit discovery process had already unearthed a lot of eyebrow-raising communications between AI industry executives, from emails between Altman and Sutskever to entries from Brockman’s own diary. Even texts between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Musk were made public. But that was all before the jury trial started — now, there’s even more set to be revealed. 诉讼的证据开示过程已经挖掘出许多令业界震惊的 AI 高管之间的沟通记录，从奥特曼与苏茨克维之间的邮件，到布罗克曼的个人日记条目，甚至连 Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格与马斯克之间的短信也被公开。但这都是在陪审团审判开始之前的情况——现在，还有更多证据即将披露。
Here’s an exhaustive list of all the exhibits that have been made public so far and the biggest takeaways from each one. Admittedly, not every item is necessarily interesting, so we’ve flagged the most important ones with an asterisk. The Verge will keep updating the list as more are added. 以下是迄今为止已公开的所有证据清单以及每项证据的核心要点。诚然，并非每一项都非常引人注目，因此我们用星号标记了最重要的部分。《The Verge》将随着新证据的增加持续更新此列表。
*Exhibit No. 5 证据编号 5
A June 2015 email exchange between Altman and Musk. Altman lays out a five-part plan involving an AI lab with a mission to “create the first general AI and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest. More generally, safety should be a first-class requirement.” 这是一封 2015 年 6 月奥特曼与马斯克之间的电子邮件往来。奥特曼提出了一个五点计划，涉及建立一个人工智能实验室，其使命是“创造第一个通用人工智能，并将其用于个人赋能——即看起来最安全的分布式未来版本。更广泛地说，安全性应被视为首要要求。”
He suggests that they start with seven to 10 people and expand from there, using an extra Y Combinator building located in Mountain View. Governance-wise, Altman names five people to start, proposing himself, Musk, Bill Gates, Pierre Omidyar, and Dustin Moskovitz. “The technology would be owned by the foundation and used ‘for the good of the world’, and in cases where it’s not obvious how that should be applied the 5 of us would decide,” Altman writes. He adds that the researchers working at the lab would have “significant financial upside … uncorrelated to what they build, which should eliminate some of the conflict,” and suggests paying them a “competitive salary” and awarding them equity in Y Combinator. He also says they should get someone to “run the team” but that that person “probably shouldn’t be on the governance board.” 他建议从 7 到 10 人开始，并在此基础上进行扩展，使用位于山景城的一栋额外的 Y Combinator 大楼。在治理方面，奥特曼提名了五个人作为初始成员，包括他自己、马斯克、比尔·盖茨、皮埃尔·奥米迪亚和达斯汀·莫斯科维茨。奥特曼写道：“该技术将由基金会拥有，并用于‘造福世界’，在不确定如何应用的情况下，由我们 5 人决定。”他补充说，在实验室工作的研究人员将拥有“巨大的财务收益……且与他们构建的产品无关，这应该能消除一些冲突”，并建议支付他们“有竞争力的薪水”，并授予他们 Y Combinator 的股权。他还表示，他们应该找人来“管理团队”，但那个人“可能不应该进入治理委员会”。
Altman goes on to ask Musk whether he’ll be involved in the AI lab in addition to governance, potentially coming by once a month to talk about progress or at least being publicly supportive to help with recruiting. As a model, he names Peter Thiel’s “part-time partner” involvement at Y Combinator. 奥特曼接着询问马斯克，除了治理之外，他是否会参与实验室的工作，比如每月来一次讨论进展，或者至少在公开场合表示支持以帮助招聘。他以彼得·蒂尔在 Y Combinator 的“兼职合伙人”身份为例。
Finally, Altman mentions a “regulation letter,” seeming to imply that the AI lab was going to write a letter calling for AI regulation. He says he’s happy to leave Musk off as a public signatory. Musk replies, “Agree on all.” 最后，奥特曼提到了“监管信”，似乎暗示该 AI 实验室将撰写一封呼吁进行 AI 监管的信件。他表示，如果马斯克不想作为公开签署人，他也很乐意。马斯克回复道：“全部同意。”
*Exhibit No. 7 证据编号 7
In an October 2015 email exchange between Altman and Musk, Altman suggests starting with a $100 million commitment by Musk and asks if he could donate an additional $30 million over the next five years.” He says Bill Gates isn’t yet committed to donating but that he hopes to “have him locked down next week,” adding that he believes Mark Zuckerberg likely won’t come through due to his own AI lab, Facebook AI Research (FAIR). He also suggests that he and Musk start as the first two members of the Safety Board with the potential to add three other members over the following year, calling it the “‘second key’ for releasing anything that could be dangerous.” Musk responds, “Let’s discuss governance. This is critical. I don’t 在 2015 年 10 月奥特曼与马斯克的一封邮件往来中，奥特曼建议马斯克先承诺投入 1 亿美元，并询问他是否可以在未来五年内额外捐赠 3000 万美元。他说比尔·盖茨尚未承诺捐款，但他希望“下周能搞定他”，并补充说他认为马克·扎克伯格可能不会参与，因为他有自己的 AI 实验室——Facebook AI Research (FAIR)。他还建议他和马斯克作为安全委员会的首两名成员，并有可能在接下来的一年里增加三名成员，称这是“发布任何可能具有危险性事物的‘第二把钥匙’”。马斯克回复道：“让我们讨论一下治理问题。这至关重要。我并不……”