In response to reports, a senior AI researcher utilized by Elon Musk to create a rival ChatGPT OpenAI bot was arrested last month for a homemade battery.
Igor Babuschkin was arrested by police in Palo Alto, California on March 6, although prosecutors who reviewed the case said there have been no plans to charge him with a felony, based on Info.
Palo Alto police responded to a domestic dispute this morning in a luxury apartment constructing at 588 Webster St., near the Stanford University campus.
“Following an investigation, police arrested the suspect (Igor Babuschkin) for a domestic violence misdemeanor and placed him within the Santa Clara County Central Jail,” Palo Alto Police Department spokesman Brian Philip wrote in an email to The Information.
In response to Philip, Babuschkin was released on $10,000 bail at 5:46 p.m. on the day of his arrest.
Philip said the case involved “minor injuries” but, based on Insider, didn’t pose a threat to public safety. The spokesman declined to offer details of the incident, saying the matter was confidential.
![According to the report, Igor Babuschkin, a senior AI researcher hired by Elon Musk to develop a rival to ChatGPT OpenAI, was arrested for domestic battery last month in Palo Alto, California.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009904460.jpg?w=1024)
The Post asked Palo Alto police, in addition to Babuschkin and Musk, for comment.
A couple of days after Babuschkin’s arrest, Musk founded a recent company, X.AI Corp. in Nevada as a part of his plan to create a recent super company that will include his other holdings, including Twitter, whose legal name was recently modified to X Corporation
Twitter also moved its headquarters from Delaware to Nevada, in a legal act filed last week, and have become a subsidiary of X Holdings Corp.
![On the morning of March 6, Palo Alto police responded to a domestic dispute in a luxury apartment building at 588 Webster St., near the Stanford University campus.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009904893.jpg?w=1024)
Little is thought about Musk’s hand-picked AI genius.
In response to Babuschkin’s LinkedIn page, he attended a technical college in Germany before starting his profession as a research engineer at DeepMind, a UK-based artificial intelligence lab that was acquired by Google in 2014.
After spending nearly 4 years at DeepMind, Babuschkin left London and moved to San Francisco, where he joined OpenAI as a member of the technical staff, based on Babuschkin’s LinkedIn page.
![According to his LinkedIn page, Babuschkin was a senior artificial intelligence researcher at Google-owned DeepMind.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009904462.jpg)
![Babuschkin was reportedly released on $10,000 bail on the day of his arrest.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009904461.jpg?w=970)
Babuschkin spent nearly two years at OpenAI until March last 12 months, when he rejoined DeepMind as a senior research engineer.
In February of this 12 months, he left DeepMind, which was across the time it was reported that Musk desired to recruit Babuschkin in his quest to develop a rival chatbot to “get up” ChatGPT.
Musk sharply criticized OpenAI and ChatGPT, which gained great popularity for their ability to write down essays and reveal language skills that match – and in some cases surpass – those of humans.
![The Post asked Babuschkin for comment.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/NYPICHPDPICT000009904459.jpg)
In a recent tweet, Musk lamented that OpenAI was “training AI to get up.” He criticized OpenAI for filtering out content that was deemed violent, sexist or racist from ChatGPT responses.
IN a recent interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox NewsMusk said he had a falling out with Google co-founder Larry Page over the potential threats to civilization posed by artificial intelligence.
Musk said he can be concerned about ChatGPT’s rapid growth.
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Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with other tech industry leaders including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Y Combinator founding partner Jessica Livingston, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and machine learning expert Ilya Sutskever.
But he left the corporate after reportedly losing out to Sam Altman, the present CEO, in an influence struggle.
Musk agreed with Carlson that it was “possible” that the AI ”could take over and reach some extent where it can’t be turned off and make decisions for humans.”
“That is definitely where things are headed,” Musk told Carlson in an interview that aired this week.