OpenAI was founded as an explicitly safety-focused non-profit and made a variety of safety related promises in its charter. It received numerous tax and other benefits from its non-profit status. Allowing it to tear all of that up when it becomes inconvenient sends a very bad message to other actors in the ecosystem.
From the start, OpenAI's mission was to keep its technology under the control of a nonprofit accountable to the public. Its decision to abandon that mission in favor of profit underscores why public involvement is essential in shaping the future of AI.
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