Musk last year sued Microsoft and its close business partner OpenAI in a dispute over Musk’s foundational contributions to OpenAI, which Musk helped start. Musk now runs his own AI company, xAI, maker of Grok, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also spoke with Nadella via live video call earlier at Monday’s conference.
Musk didn’t address last week’s controversy in his chat with Nadella but described honesty as the “best policy” for AI safety.
“We have and will make mistakes, but we aspire to correct them very quickly,” Musk said.
“Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians?” a protesting employee shouted in the first minutes of Nadella’s introductory talk Monday. “How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?”
Microsoft didn’t immediately return an emailed request for comment about the protest Monday.
Microsoft-owned GitHub also used the Seattle gathering to introduce a new AI coding “agent” to help programmers build new software.
