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It's all unraveling at OpenAI (again)

Open AI's negative news cycle continues with concerns over safety, NDA use, and Sam Altman's conflicts of interest.

"Based on our experience, we believe that self-governance cannot reliably withstand the pressure of profit incentives," the former board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley wrote in an Economist op-ed last month that called for external oversight of AI companies. Those profit incentives have put growth front and center, some insiders say, with OpenAI racing against other AI companies to build more-advanced forms of the technology — and releasing those products before some people think they're ready for the spotlight. While he isn't profiting directly from OpenAI — he owns no stake in the company, and his reported $65,000 salary is a drop in the bucket compared with his billion-dollar net worth — conflicts of interest abound.

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