Kahl, P.: Musk v OpenAI and the Law of Restricted Purpose: Charitable Trust, Fiduciary Control, and AI Epistemic Infrastructure

_Lex Et Ratio Ltd_. 2026This article examines Musk v OpenAI (Musk v Altman) as a potential test case for applying charitable-trust doctrine to artificial intelligence governance. The dispute is not merely a founder conflict, commercial rivalry, or disagreement about corporate form. At its strongest, the case asks whether property, rights, governance powers, or other legally recognised interests accumulated under sufficiently definite public-benefit AI commitments may later be governed by standar