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Honest Thoughts

Elon Musk to Ilya Sutskever, September 20, 2017

Musk responds to the "Honest Thoughts" email from Sutskever and Brockman.

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From: Elon Musk
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 2:17PM
To: Ilya Sutskever
Cc: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Sam Teller, Shivon Zilis
Subject: Honest Thoughts

Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw. Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit. I will no longer fund OpenAI until you have made a firm commitment to stay or I'm just being a fool who is essentially providing free funding for you to create a startup. Discussions are over

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Sep 20, 2017 Ilya Sutskever Elon, Sam, This process has been the highest stakes conversation that Greg and I have ever participated in,…
Sep 20, 2017 Elon Musk Guys, I've had enough. This is the final straw. Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as…
Sep 20, 2017 Elon Musk To be clear, this is not an ultimatum to accept what was discussed before. That is no longer on the table.