by Mario Nawfal at X
OpenAI, the brainchild of Elon and others, was built on a radical idea: AGI should benefit everyone, not just investors.
That’s why it’s been under nonprofit control since day one.
Now, that safeguard’s on the chopping block.
A group of former OpenAI staff and nonprofit leaders is sounding the alarm, urging California and Delaware officials to block a proposed restructuring that would hand control of AGI development to a profit-driven corporation.
OpenAI claims the change is needed to stay competitive and attract big investors—but that’s exactly the problem.
AGI is world-altering tech— removing nonprofit oversight could turn OpenAI into just another Silicon Valley player chasing profits.
Elon’s original vision was clear: AGI should serve humanity, not shareholders.
Stripping away nonprofit control would undermine that mission.
Source: NotForPrivateGain, Venture Beat
Following is a More Detailed Explanation of What’s Happening with OpenAI
by Rob Wiblin at X
A new legal letter aimed at OpenAI lays out in stark terms the money and power grab OpenAI is trying to trick its board members into accepting — what one analyst calls “the theft of the millennium.”
The simple facts of the case are both devastating and darkly hilarious.
I’ll explain for your amusement.
The letter ‘Not For Private Gain’ is written for the relevant Attorneys General and is signed by 3 Nobel Prize winners among dozens of top ML researchers, legal experts, economists, ex-OpenAI staff and civil society groups. (I’ll link below.)
It says that OpenAI’s attempt to restructure as a for-profit is simply totally illegal, like you might naively expect.
It then asks the Attorneys General (AGs) to take some extreme measures I’ve never seen discussed before. Here’s how they build up to their radical demands.
For 9 years OpenAI and its founders went on ad nauseam about how non-profit control was essential to:…
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