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The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI
“The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, are a “collection of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.”
“The governance structures and leadership integrity guiding a project as important as this must reflect the magnitude and severity of the mission,” reads the website’s Vision for Change. So far, the race to dominance in AI has resulted in raw scaling — a growth-at-all-costs mindset that has led companies like OpenAI to hoover up content without consent for training purposes and build massive data centers that are causing power outages and increasing electricity costs for local consumers. Rebecca Bellan is a senior reporter at TechCrunch, where she covers Tesla and Elon Musk’s broader empire, autonomy, AI, electrification, gig work platforms, Big Tech regulatory scrutiny, and more.
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