Who Will Govern Artificial Intelligence?

Musk v. Altman is being treated as a billionaire feud. It should be seen as the first major civic test of whether artificial intelligence will be governed for the public good.

A federal courtroom in Oakland has become the first great civic classroom of the artificial intelligence age.

The case is formally Musk v. Altman. Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI in 2015, is suing Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the organization abandoned the nonprofit mission under which it was created and became a prof…