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OpenAI can stop pretending

The company is great at getting what it wants—whether or not it’s beholden to a nonprofit mission.

Altman has expressed these concerns himself—and so OpenAI’s 2019 structure, which gave the nonprofit final say over the for-profit’s actions, was meant to guide the company toward building the technology responsibly instead of rushing to release new AI products, sell subscriptions, and stay ahead of competitors. In April, Hilton and a number of his former colleagues, represented by the Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, wrote a letter to the court hearing Musk’s lawsuit, arguing that a large part of OpenAI’s success depended on its commitment to safety and the benefit of humanity. Three days after OpenAI’s December announcement of the plans to revoke nonprofit oversight, Kathy Jennings, the attorney general of Delaware, notified the court presiding over Musk’s lawsuit that her office was reviewing the proposed restructure to ensure that the corporation was fulfilling its charitable interest to build AI that benefits all of humanity.

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