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OpenAI lays out its for-profit transition plans

In a public memo, OpenAI claims that it must transition to a for-profit organization to achieve its mission.

The PBC will run and control OpenAI’s operations and business, while the nonprofit will hire a leadership team and staff to pursue charitable initiatives in sectors such as health care, education, and science.” In December, Meta sent a letter to California attorney general Rob Bonta, arguing that allowing the shift would have “seismic implications for Silicon Valley.” One former employee, Carroll Wainwright, who researched aligning AI systems with safety policies, wrote in a post on X this fall that OpenAI “was structured as a non-profit [but] acted like a for-profit” and “should not [be trusted] when it promises to do the right thing later.”

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