Ex-OpenAI Staff Oppose Startup Overhaul in Musk Legal Fight (1)

A dozen former OpenAI employees are objecting to the startup’s plan to restructure as a for-profit as Elon Musk wages a high-stakes legal challenge to the overhaul.

In the latest turn in a showdown between the world’s richest person and one of the most valuable startups, the data scientists and technicians argued in a court filing Friday for keeping a controlling stake of OpenAI in its nonprofit arm.

“If the OpenAI nonprofit agreed to a change in the OpenAI corporate structure which took away its controlling role, that would fundamentally violate its mission,” according to the filing. The ex-employees, all ...