“It is an unacceptable security breach,” the CEOs of a series of billion-dollar companies Tesla, X, xAI, SpaceX and Neuralink stated, asserting that Apple cannot guarantee that OpenAI will keep user data safe.
Elon Musk has threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies after the tech giant announced that it will integrate OpenAI's flagship AI model, ChatGPT, into its product line – possibly affecting billions of iPhones, Macs, and iPads.
“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, Apple devices will be banned at my companies,” Musk posted to Twitter after Apple's AI announcement on Monday. “It was an unacceptable security breach.”
The world's richest technology billionaire said this policy will extend to guests.
“Guests will have to leave their Apple devices at the entrance, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” he promised.
Musk is certainly not the first CEO to ban AI tools from his office. In fact, Apple itself has banned employees from using ChatGPT – the same tool the tech giant is now tapping into to improve its 13-year-old virtual assistant, Siri.
In another tweet, Musk questioned Apple's decision to partner with OpenAI instead of building its own innovative AI model.
“It is absurd that Apple is not smart enough to create its own AI, but is capable enough to ensure that OpenAI will protect your security and privacy,” Musk wrote.
When announcing its partnership with ChatGPT, Apple emphasized that Siri will ask users for permission before connecting to the AI model and that the implementation will be encrypted and kept secret and secure. Musk was skeptical.
“Apple has no idea what's really going on when they hand over your data to OpenAI,” he said. “They are selling you out.”
ChatGPT's explosive emergence has caused bans at several organizations. Last year, the US House of Representatives banned employees from using ChatGPT due to privacy concerns. At the same time, Samsung also banned the use of ChatGPT on the company system.
Musk has not previously objected to the integration of AI into the hardware and software of other major technology companies, including Microsoft, Meta and Google – which also introduced a smartphone with AI integration deep. His aversion to ChatGPT specifically, versus AI in general, probably stems from his longstanding feud with OpenAI.
Apple announces ChatGPT 4o integration
Apple also announced that it will integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, allowing users to access ChatGPT's insights without switching tools.
Siri can use ChatGPT for complex queries, and users can create content and images using ChatGPT capabilities directly within Apple's system-wide Writing Tools.
Apple will also integrate ChatGPT with other applications, including its system-wide writing tool, allowing users to create text and visual content.
Apple says users will be able to access ChatGPT for free and without needing to open an account. Subscribers will be able to connect their premium accounts.
Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT features are expected to roll out in the coming months, with some features launching as late as 2025.
Elon Musk is "averse" to OpenAI
The billionaire has repeatedly spoken out against OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy and several others. In fact, Musk took credit last May for the creation of OpenAI, saying it would not exist without him.
“I played a key role in recruiting key scientists and engineers, especially Ilya Sutskever (OpenAi's chief scientist, who resigned last month),” Musk told CNBC. “Ilya's participation is crucial to OpenAI's ultimate success.”
In March, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing the company of straying from its humanitarian roots.
“This lawsuit was filed to force OpenAI to comply with its founding agreement and return to its mission of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity,” Musk said in the lawsuit, “not to individual defendants and the world's largest technology companies stand to benefit.”
In response to Musk's lawsuit, OpenAI released internal emails showing that Musk was also motivated by profits.
“We need to go with a number much larger than $100 million to avoid sounding desperate compared to what Google or Facebook are spending,” Musk allegedly wrote. “I think we should say we're starting with a $1 billion funding commitment. This is real. I will cover anything that anyone else won't provide.”
*Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a form of AI capable of performing all intellectual tasks that humans can do. Unlike narrow AI (ANI), AGI has the ability to understand, learn and apply knowledge in many different fields. AGI can learn on its own from experience and new data without the need for constant human intervention. It can adapt to new situations and problems that have never been encountered before. AGI is considered the ultimate goal of AI research, but currently it is still at least 10 years away from development. AGI is causing many security concerns and potential risks to humanity.
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