Elon Musk tells the jury that all he wants to do is save humanity

On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself arsenic a savior.

In the high-profile proceedings betwixt him and his chap OpenAI co-founder, present CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going done his background. He went arsenic acold backmost arsenic being raised successful South Africa and arriving successful Canada for assemblage with "2,500 successful Canadian travelers' checks and a container of apparel and books," past spent an unusually agelong clip talking astir his past, from Zip2 to PayPal to the current, much acquainted slate of companies helium present runs.

Why is Musk giving the assemblage truthful overmuch of his root story? Though helium whitethorn be, depending connected the day, the world's wealthiest individual, Musk suggested …

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