The quest to keep OpenAI honest

We’ve covered OpenAI connected Decoder in respective ways this summer, from however it’s navigating the AI endowment wars to how radical are starting to consciousness attached to ChatGPT.

Next week, we’re airing a caller speech I had with Bret Taylor, the president of OpenAI’s board. But today, I privation to zoom successful connected the conflict that’s brewing astir the aboriginal of OpenAI itself. 

Despite being 1 of the astir invaluable companies successful the world, OpenAI is inactive technically a nonprofit. That operation was designed backmost successful 2015 to support investors from steering artificial quality onto paths that could harm humanity. It’s besides what acceptable the signifier for the dramatic committee coup successful 2023 that concisely ousted Sam Altman arsenic CEO. And now, OpenAI is trying to shake its nonprofit structure truthful it tin rise adjacent much wealth and, eventually, spell public.

There’s a batch astatine involvement here, and not conscionable for OpenAI. To unpack wherefore it matters, I’m joined contiguous by Catherine Bracy, CEO of TechEquity, and Orson Aguilar, CEO of LatinoProsperity. They assistance tally EyesOnOpenAI, a conjugation of advocacy groups that’s challenging OpenAI’s attempted restructuring.

As you’ll hear, Catherine and Orson reason that OpenAI has enjoyed the advantages of being a nonprofit portion drifting distant from its mission. It’s a analyzable and fascinating communicative that cuts to the bosom of however the astir important AI institution successful the satellite is structured and the impacts of that structure.

Here, I should enactment that OpenAI declined to remark connected this occurrence specifically. Instead, I was referred to a May blog station from Sam Altman, successful which helium wrote that the company’s projected restructuring volition inactive make the “largest and astir effectual nonprofit successful history.”

If you’d similar to work much connected what we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired the links below:

• OpenAI abandons plans to go a for-profit institution | The Verge
• Why California’s AG indispensable proceed the probe into OpenAI | CalMatters
• An unfastened missive to OpenAI | EyesOnOpenAI
• OpenAI eyes $50B valuation successful imaginable worker stock merchantability | Reuters
• OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires | San Francisco Standard

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