Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, Really, We All Lost | The New Yorker
The real question of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI was whether the company’s corporate transformation was cynical in intention or merely in outcome. Musk may have lost the case, but the trial was also a net negative for humanity.
The cases of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried at least offered a pleasant sense of comeuppance. But in Musk v. Altman, to root against Tweedledum was effectively to root for Tweedledee. May 20, 2026 Illustration by Joan Wong; Source photographs from Getty A famous logic puzzle takes place on a mythical island divided between the knights, who never lie, and the knaves, who always do. A foreign traveller encounters a fork in the road: one way guarantees safe passage, the other certain death. A member of each tribe is present, though it isn’t clear which is which, and the traveller is…
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