As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman have been released as part of the court proceedings.

I have found reading through these really valuable, and I haven't found an online source that compiles all of them in an easy to read format. So I made one.

I used AI assistance to generate this, which might have introduced errors. Check the original source to make sure it's accurate before you quote it: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69013420/musk-v-altman/ [1]

Sam Altman to Elon Musk - May 25, 2015

Been thinking a lot about whether it's possible to stop humanity from developing AI.

I think the answer is almost definitely not.

If it's going to happen anyway, it seems like it would be good for someone other than Google to do it first.

Any thoughts on [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - May 25, 2015

(01:19) Elon Musk to Sam Altman - May 25, 2015

(01:28) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - Jun 24, 2015

(03:31) Elon Musk to Sam Altman - Jun 24, 2015

(03:39) Greg Brockman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Altman) - Nov 22, 2015

(06:06) Elon Musk to Sam Altman - Dec 8, 2015

(07:07) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - Dec 8, 2015

(07:59) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - Dec 11, 2015

(08:32) Elon Musk to Sam Altman - Dec 11, 2015

(08:50) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - Dec 11, 2015

(09:01) Elon Musk to Sam Altman - Dec 11, 2015

(09:08) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - Dec 11, 2015

(09:26) Elon Musk to: Ilya Sutskever, Pamela Vagata, Vicki Cheung, Diederik Kingma, Andrej Karpathy, John D. Schulman, Trevor Blackwell, Greg Brockman, (cc:Sam Altman) - Dec 11, 2015

(10:35) Greg Brockman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Altman) - Feb 21, 2016

(15:11) Elon Musk to Greg Brockman, (cc: Sam Altman) - Feb 22, 2016

(15:54) Greg Brockman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Altman) - Feb 22, 2016

(16:14) Greg Brockman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Mar 21, 2016

(17:58) Elon Musk to Greg Brockman, (cc: Sam Teller) - Mar 21, 2016

(18:08) Sam Teller to Elon Musk - April 27, 2016

(19:28) Elon Musk to Sam Teller - Apr 27, 2016

(20:05) Sam Altman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 16, 2016

(25:31) Elon Musk to Sam Altman, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 16, 2016

(26:36) Sam Altman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 16, 2016

(27:01) Elon Musk to Sam Altman, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 16, 2016

(27:17) Sam Altman to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 16, 2016

(27:29) Sam Teller to Elon Musk - Sep 20, 2016

(27:55) Elon Musk to Sam Teller - Sep 21, 2016

(28:11) Ilya Sutskever to Elon Musk, Greg Brockman - Jul 20, 2017

(29:41) Shivon Zilis to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Aug 28, 2017

(33:15) Elon Musk to Shivon Zilis, (cc: Sam Teller) - Aug 28, 2017

(33:30) Ilya Sutskever to Elon Musk, Sam Altman, (cc: Greg Brockman, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis) - Sep 20, 2017

(39:05) Elon Musk to Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman (cc: Greg Brockman, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis) - Sep 20, 2017

(39:24) Sam Altman to Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever (cc: Greg Brockman, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis) - Sep 21, 2017

(39:40) Shivon Zilis to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 22, 2017

(40:10) Elon Musk to Shivon Zilis (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 22, 2017

(40:20) Shivon Zilis to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Sep 22, 2017

(41:54) Sam Altman to Elon Musk (cc: Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis) - Jan 21, 2018

(42:28) Elon Musk to Sam Altman (cc: Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis) - Jan 21, 2018

(42:42) Andrej Karpathy to Elon Musk, (cc: Shivon Zilis) - Jan 31, 2018

(43:44) Elon Musk to Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, (cc: Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis, fw: Andrej Karpathy) - Jan 31, 2018

(45:15) Elon Musk to Andrej Karpathy - Jan 31, 2018

(45:29) Andrej Karpathy to Elon Musk - Jan 31, 2018

(48:37) Elon Musk to Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman - Feb 1, 2018

(49:05) Shivon Zilis to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Mar 25, 2018

(53:58) Elon Musk to Sam Altman, (cc: Shivon Zilis) - Apr 2, 2018

(54:08) Shivon Zilis to Elon Musk, (cc: Sam Teller) - Apr 23, 2018

(01:02:03) Elon Musk to Sam Altman - Mar 11, 2019

(01:02:38) Sam Altman to Elon Musk - Mar 11, 2019

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
November 16th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5jjk4CDnj9tA7ugxr/openai-email-archives

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“OpenAI Email Archives” by habryka

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