An AI researcher employed to construct Elon Musk’s ChatGPT rival was arrested in a ‘home violence incident’

- Elon Musk’s new AI researcher Igor Babuschkin was arrested in March in a home violence case.
- Musk reportedly employed Babuschkin as a part of a push to develop a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Igor Babuschkin, one among Twitter’s engineering hires who Elon Musk is reportedly hoping can assist him construct a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, was arrested in March in what police in Palo Alto, California, known as “a home violence incident.”
Babuschkin was arrested on the morning of March 6 by Palo Alto police, who arrived on the scene of a criticism and decided {that a} misdemeanor home violence incident had occurred, Lieutenant Brian Philip of the Palo Alto Police Division confirmed to Insider.
Babuschkin was launched from custody the identical night, after he posted bond on a $10,000 bail, Philip confirmed to Insider. The arrest was first reported by the tech information web site The Data.


The case concerned “a minor damage,” however didn’t in any other case pose a menace to public security, Philip informed Insider. He declined to supply particulars in regards to the incident, saying the case is confidential.
Babuschkin was arrested at 588 Webster Road, based on a police report log posted final month on the Palo Alto Police Division’s web site.
The Santa Clara District Lawyer’s workplace determined to not carry formal expenses in opposition to Babuschkin following the arrest, Cynthia Sumida, the general public data officer on the DA’s workplace, informed Insider.
Babuschkin didn’t reply to Insider’s calls and emailed requests for remark. Musk didn’t reply to Insider’s request for remark despatched to his Tesla and SpaceX e-mail addresses. An e-mail despatched to Twitter’s press deal with obtained a poop emoji auto-response.
Babuschkin had left DeepMind, Google’s AI agency, and joined Twitter as senior director of engineering, Insider’s Kali Hays has beforehand reported. Babuschkin additionally informed The Data in February that Musk was discussing the opportunity of making a chatbot whose “responses are extra reliable and dependable.”
Musk, who has criticized the notion of “training AI to be woke,” has reportedly been growing his personal AI startup, and not too long ago integrated X.AI Corp., per WSJ. Musk has additionally introduced on sources together with roughly 10,000 graphics processing models to execute his AI plans, Insider beforehand reported.