A group of former OpenAI employees asks the general prosecutors of California and Delaware to prevent the company from transitioning of a non -profit organization to a profit company, citing Conners about the control and responsibility of its powerful technology.
AP News reports that in a movement that has raised the cameras of the eyes within the community of AI, a coalition of former Operai employees, backed by three winners of the Nobel Prize and other experts, has sent a letter to the general prosecutors of California and Delaware -By -Wyringing. The group, which includes former advisors and policy engineers, is concerned that Openai’s change of a non -profit beneficial organization to a profit for profit can be serious implications for the control and safety of its technology, the development of the highway (the company’s company) exceeds human capabilities.
Page Hedley, a former policy and ethical advisor of OpenAi, expressed concern in an interview with Associated Press, stating: “Ultimately, I am worried who possesses and controls this technology that was created.” The letter, sent to the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta (D) and the Attorney General of Delaware, Kathy Jennings (D), asks officials to use their authority to protect Openai’s charitable mission and avoid restructuring.
Operai, incorporated in Delaware and operating in San Francisco, has responded to the letter, stating that any change in its existing structure will be in service to ensure that the broader public can benefit from AI. The company has declared that its profit arm will be a public benefits corporation, similar Laboratories such as Anthrope and Elon Musk’s XAI, while preserving a non -profit arm to ensure that the mission is achieved as they grow for profit.
This letter marks the second petition to state officials this month, after one of work leaders and non -profit organizations focused on protecting the billions of dollars from OpenAI in charitable assets. Attorney General Jennings has previously stated that he would review any transaction of this type to ensure that the interests of the public are properly protected, while the Office of the Attorney General Bont has sought more information.
Openai, co -founded by the current CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk, originally began as a non -profit research laboratory with the mission of safely building Agi’s benefit for humanity. Almost a decade later, the company has reported a market value of $ 300 billion and has 400 million weekly users of its flagship product, Chatgpt. However, the transition to a profit entity has bones with challenges, including a demand for Musk, who insists on the company and Altman to betray the founding principles that led him to invest in the beneficial organization.
As Breitbart News previously reported, Musk also made a sacrifice to buy Openai, which Sam Altman ruled out as a ploy to “decelerate us.”
Speaking at the AI Summit in Paris, Altman suggested that the measure was designed to prevent Openai’s progress instead of representing a serious purchase attempt.
“I think it is likely to try to slow us down,” Altman told Bloomberg Television on Tuesday, pointing to Musk’s position as a competitor in AI space. “I wish I simply compete by building a better product, but I think there are many tactics, many demands, all kinds of other crazy things, and now this.”
The acquisition offer reaches a crucial situation for OpenAI, which is currently finishing an important fundraising round that could assess the company at $ 300 billion. The company is also navigating a complex transition from its non -profit origins to a profit structure, a measure that requires a careful consultation of its charitable mission and interests of investors, and is subject to a demand presented by Musk.
The signatories of the letter include two winning economists of the Nobel, Oliver Hart and Joseph Stiglitz, as well as the legendary “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, and Stuart Russell. Hinton expressed his support for the OpenAI mission to ensure that Agi benefits all humanity and his hope that the company will execute that mission instead of focusing on enriching investors.
The AP contributed to this report.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter of Knitbart News that cover issues of freedom of expression and online censorship.