CA General Prosecutor must continue the investigation of OPENAI

By Orson Aguilar and Catherine Bracey, special for Calmatters

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Only days after abandoning your planned conversion For an organization with profit and its announcement will remain a non -profit purpose, Openai puzzled us with another message: almost A deal with $ 6.5 billion to buy ioA launch, created by former Apple CEO and iPhone designer Johnny Ive.

This is not the only business deal that Openai has in the job. The company too plans To build a massive new data center in the United Arab Emirates and has Reported to be purchased AI startup windsurfing.

If one was under the impression that Openai’s decision to remain a non -profit is a profit for the public, their business movements, managed by profit, should leave it rest. Transactions like those require OPENAI to sell bets in the company erode non -profit control over business.

In the meantime, OpenAi has not yet answered the main questions about how their conversion into a public benefit corporation will maintain independent non -profit supervision. Which of the Openai subjects has the technologies it develops? How will OpenAi avoid conflict of interest and self -conclusion among executives and investors? Who will reap the funds it sits with a profit? Most of all, what happens when the interests of the shareholders contradict the public interest, to which the non -profit organization is legally obliged to serve?

Without answering these critical questions, Investigations to Openai structure California and Delaware lawyers must continue.

Openai was originally founded as a non -profit purpose to ensure that artificial intelligence will be beneficial for all humanity. Today, it works on a structure that allows profit and commercial profit to adopt a priority over their mission to serve the public good.

Since 2019 Openai methodically displaced power from its non -profit organization in a tangled network of Business Deals and Relationships between InvestorsS In the meantime, the non -profit organization is increasingly playing the role of a weak and passive observer, and not a manager of public interest – his assets are largely not taken into account and his ability to direct AI to meaningful public benefits is deeply compromised.

The last rotation of Openai is a smart rebranding of his problematic business as usual. This is a way to divert lawsuits, avoiding more control and putting the interests of investors before everyday people who Openai is legally obliged to serve.

The public deserves answers and transparency. While disputes over the management structures and the legality of non -profit property may seem annoying and excluded from the lives of everyday people, the future of Openai has huge consequences for the well -being of society.

On the one hand, artificial intelligence leads to breakthroughs that help us Adapt to climate change., detect deadly diseases And just give us more time in your busy life. At the reverse end, the technology is also accelerate greenhouse gas emissionswhile leading to improper deprivation., unemployment and worldwide misinformationS

In the OPENAI’s own Basic words: “It is difficult to understand how much AI at the human level can benefit from society and it is equally difficult to imagine how much it can harm society if it is built or used incorrectly.” If OPENAI’s charity assets were separated from his commercial interests and placed in the hands of a completely independent non -profit purpose, which could fulfill its original mission, there is a much more chance of providing a positive future vision for AI than the negative.

That is why California and Delaware’s General Lawyers have to take decisive action in their continuation Investigations to restructure OpenaiS There must be a stable investigation and supervision of the OPENAI management structure, including an overview of the past compliance with the California charity law. All non -profit assets, unrelated to management, must be relatively valued and necessary for the transfer of a new, fully independent charity, dedicated to the maximum public benefit. Finally, the non -profit council needs true independence and constant supervisory power to be responsible for Openai.

Openai starts as a non -profit purpose, which means that it must serve the public good, not private interests. Still, Openai has been using these charity assets for commercial purposes for years, violating its mission. There must be a clear separation. This was promised by openai when it started and it deserves the public.

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