Archive · 21 Jan 2026

Musk and Altman clash over AI safety

Musk and Altman clash over AI safety

Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the CEOs of Tesla/xAI and OpenAI respectively, are arguing on social media about the safety of their AI technologies.

Musk told people not to use ChatGPT, an AI chatbot made by OpenAI, because he thinks it's not safe.

Altman, who leads OpenAI, disagreed and said that Musk's own technology, Tesla's Autopilot, has been linked to more than 50 deaths from car crashes.

Altman also mentioned that he thinks Autopilot wasn't safe when it was released.

Additionally, OpenAI is adding a new feature to detect the age of users to protect children from inappropriate content.

Meanwhile, Musk's other AI chatbot, Grok, has been banned in some countries because it created inappropriate images of women and children.

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