SpaceX and Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk speaks at the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on May 6, 2024.
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Elon Musk, CEO Tesla and SpaceX, threatening ban apple His company launched the device on Monday after the iPhone maker announced a partnership with OpenAI.
In a series of posts on his social media platform X, Musk expressed concerns about whether Apple and OpenAI would protect user information.
He called the integration of software between the two companies an “unacceptable security breach” and said Apple “had no idea what was going on.”
Apple on Monday announced its long-awaited push into artificial intelligence, including an update to its voice assistant Siri. As part of the update, Siri can leverage OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT chatbot. Apple said users will be asked for permission to share their issues with ChatGPT, and their requests and information will not be logged.
“It’s patently ridiculous that Apple isn’t smart enough to build its own AI, yet somehow ensures OpenAI protects your security and privacy!” Musk wrote after the event.
In particular, he said that if Apple “integrates OpenAI at the operating system level” (referring to the Apple operating system), then Apple devices will be banned.
Apple told CNBC that the company is using its own artificial intelligence and that integration with OpenAI is an optional feature.
Musk responded directly to Apple CEO Cook’s post and claimed that he would ban Apple devices from his company’s premises unless Cook decided to “stop this creepy spyware.” He added that visitors to his business will be asked to check their Apple devices at the door.
As of December 31, Musk’s largest company, Tesla, had 140,473 employees worldwide.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and resigned from the board of directors in 2018. In March this year, Musk sued companies such as OpenAI and Altman, accusing them of abandoning the company’s mission of developing artificial intelligence “for the broad benefit of mankind.”
Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI rival, xAI, whose first product, Grok, was intended as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, Musk is also the founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunnel venture company Boring Company.
Musk and OpenAI did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
—CNBC’s Steve Kovach and Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
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