More than 30 leading experts – including nine former Openai staff – have called on California General and Delaware Lawyers to intervene in the proposed Openai restructuring that would allow the company to buy out of the non -profit organization. Y en Open letter, They warn that this step eliminates key management guarantees and threaten the founding mission of Openai to ensure that artificial general exploration (AGI) “benefits all humanity.”
A group that also includes Jeffrey Hinton’s “godfather”, “hugging the researcher” and the chief scientist on ethics Margaret Mitchell, and Stewart Russell, Professor UC Berkeley, published an open letter called ” Not for private profit He also shared a letter with the Openai Nonprofit Board.
The letter comes less than two weeks after twelve former Openai staff shut Federal Judge for Weighing Elon Musk Against Sam Altman and Company. Professor Harvard Law Lawrence Lesig, who also signed a new open letter, filed a pet accuses Openai of refusing its non -profit roots And betray the missions that originally attracted them to the organization.
Signators of the letter include several former Open employees who are also included HiltonDaniel Kokatilo, Gretchen Krugger and Girish Steri – as well as former Openai Scott Aaronson, Ryan Low, Nissan Stunnon and Anis Tondvalk.
Openai is currently moving with increasing control of its efforts to avoid control over its non -profit organization. It must complete restructuring by the end of the year to provide a full financing round for $ 40 billion under the guidance of SoftBank, which was completed in March. In particular, the approval of California Prosecutor Rob Bonta is required to fulfill his plan. Bonta controls charitable organizations in the state to ensure that their assets are used in accordance with their initial charity goals. It also requires the approval of the Delaware Prosecutor General since Openai is included as a non -profit organization in Delaware (Openai, Inc.), which owns and manages the non -profit ARM (Openai Global, LLC).
Other groups have publicly commented on the restructuring of Openai: two weeks ago, California Coalition of Non -Profit Organizations, Funds and Workers called California Attorney General Rob Bonta stopped the Openai efforts – with a focus on ensuring that the non -profit organization is given a fair market value for the assets he refuses. However the group that brings a new open letter
In an open letter, the signatories claim that the removal of non -profit control over how the AGI is developed and managed, “violates a special confidence that is obliged to non -profit organizations” and “represent a sensitive and identification threat” for the Openai Charitable purpose – causing “contradictions”.
They warn that the proposed restructuring would have deprived California and the General Lawyers of the Delaware of their current supervisory power, undermining their ability to “defend the Openai Benfickers: Public.”
In order to protect public interest, the letter calls on regulators to stop restructuring, transparency of demand, and provide non-profit support for control, assuming that Openai Leaders emphasized the importance of these guarantees in 2023 to “provide its focus on (its) long-term mission.”
In response to a request for comment, the Openai press -secretary shared the following statement: “Our council was very clear: our non -profit organization will intensify, and any changes in our existing structure will serve to ensure a wider public.
The spokesman also referred to the recently launched Openai Non-Profit Commission, which will report the future charitable efforts of the company, “the maximum effect on people and organizations that resolve critical global health problems and education to the public service and scientific opening.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-23 14:08:00
Sharon Goldman
