OpenAI’s Mira Murati fires back at Elon Musk describing her company’s new partnership with Apple as ‘creepy spyware’

In her answers on June 11, Murati hammered home the idea that OpenAI is intensely focused on user privacy and security. ‘We’re trying to be as transparent as possible with the public,’ she said. — AFP/The New York Times

A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration of OpenAI's chatbot technology into Apple iPhones as “creepy spyware”.

“That’s his opinion. Obviously I don’t think so," Mira Murati, chief technology officer at OpenAI, said on stage at Fortune's MPW dinner in San Francisco on Tuesday. “We care deeply about the privacy of our users and the safety of our products."