‘He needed to have total control over it’ — Altman testifies Musk never trusted shared leadership during OpenAI trial

• Sam Altman testified in the ongoing OpenAI trial
• He claimed Elon Musk wanted “total control” over the company during its early years
• Altman alleged that Musk suggested he would pass OpenAI to his children

Sam Altman's time on the witness stand during Elon Musk's lawsuit over OpenAI was no less heated than Musk's own Terminator-infused claims, if less cinematic in references. He described Musk to the jurors in Oakland, California, as a man unwilling to build OpenAI unless he could ultimately dominate it .

The OpenAI CEO alleged Musk pushed aggressively for control during the company’s early years and resisted structures that distributed authority among multiple leaders. According to Altman, Musk believed only he could be trusted to make the difficult long-term decisions surrounding artificial intelligence.

Musk "felt very strongly that if we were going to form a for-profit he needed to ...