What Musk's testimony establishes institutionally is a template for litigating AI development as a public-safety matter rather than a commercial dispute. By telling the jury that letting OpenAI's conversion stand would mean making it "okay to loot every charity in America," Musk connected nonprofit governance law to existential-risk framing in a single sentence — a pairing that no court has had to adjudicate before. If the argument lands, the precedent is not that OpenAI violated its founding documents; it is that AI development organizations occupy a special legal category where…