--- title: "Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT" description: "Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-\"woke\" artificial intelligence. " date: "2023-02-28" modified: "2023-02-28" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-building-ai" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "OpenAI" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "chatgpt" - "elon musk" - "OpenAI" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT ![Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence. ]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## New Blood Multi-hyphenate tech guy Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence. According to a [scoop by ]()[*The Information*](), the Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO has been reaching out to AI researchers about building a competitor to ChatGPT after publicly criticizing the chatbot built by the firm [he left in 2018]() over apparent ideological differences. The report named Igor Babuschkin, a machine learning expert who until last week worked at Google DeepMind and confirmed to *The Information* that he'd left his former employer, as the potential chief of the proposed AI research firm. Babuschkin told the site that he has not yet signed any deal with Musk, but that he's interested in working with him. ## Mind Virus While Musk has at times [lauded the power of the game-changing chatbot]() from his old AI group since its release last November, he has also repeatedly taken to Twitter to trash it, especially for being "woke." "The danger of training AI to be woke — in other words, lie — is deadly," [Musk tweeted]() in December. He took those criticisms to the next level last week when he [castigated OpenAI itself](). "OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft," [Musk claimed](). "Not what I intended at all." While we can't speak to the veracity of Musk's boast that he was the person who named OpenAI, he's not wrong to point out that the firm he cofounded in 2015 did indeed recently enter into a reportedly multi-billion-dollar [deal with Microsoft]() that seems to have resulted in the tech giant's disastrous [Bing AI chatbot](). **More on OpenAI:** [*When ChatGPT Writes Bios for People, They’re Littered With Fabrications*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()