Zoe Schiffer

Like, there's a new model.

It's so cool.

We can do all these things.

You feel like you're using agents and suddenly you have superpowers.

But then there's also this factor, and I also live in the Bay Area, so I see this a lot, where like,

a not small number of people have made generational wealth in the last six years.

And I think the idea that like, you know, someone who just happened to get in early to one of the labs, obviously it may be very smart, whatever, but like is now a multi-multi-millionaire and like that could be me.

I think that idea feels pretty pervasive, particularly if you're like an engineer of any sort.

Thank you so much for having me.

Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley.

I'm Zoe Schiffer, Director of Business and Industry.

And I'm Leah Feiger, Director of Politics and Science.

Today on the show, we're diving into the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial.

The high-profile testimonies we've heard this week, including from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself, have resurfaced a lot of past events and a lot of drama.

But we're asking, will this actually be consequential to the trial's verdict?

So we're wrapping up the final week of one of the most consequential and honestly one of the pettiest trials in Silicon Valley history, the one between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

The last time we spoke about the trial, we were still at the very beginning figuring out who was going to speak and what they were going to say.

But now we've heard Musk's team put forth their key argument, namely that Sam Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman

deceived him by creating OpenAI's for-profit arm instead of keeping OpenAI as a classic charity.

This week, we heard from some of the key people who have been central to both the past and the present of OpenAI.