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- A newly released biography on Musk details how he justified poaching a Google scientist to then-CEO Larry Page.
- Larry felt 'betrayed' and was mad at Musk, the latter told his biographer.
- "And I was like, 'Larry, if you just hadn't been so cavalier about AI safety then it wouldn't really be necessary to have some countervailing force," Musk said.
In 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman convinced one Google scientist to jump ship — with a $1.9 million salary and starting bonus — and join them in cofounding OpenAI.