by Former employees of Openaai ask the best law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to prevent the company from shifting control over its technology for artificial intelligence from a non -profit charity to a profit -oriented business.
They are concerned about what happens if the chatt manufacturer fulfills his ambition to build AI, that people surpasses but is no longer responsible for his public mission to prevent this technology from causing serious damage.
“Ultimately, I am worried about who has this technology and controlled as soon as it has been created,” said Page Hedley, a former guideline and ethics consultant at Openaai, in an interview with the Associated Press.
Hedley and nine other ex-openai workers were supported by three Nobel Prize winners and other lawyers and experts who sent a letter to the two Attorney General this week.
In the coalition, the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, and the Attorney General of Delaware, Kathy Jennings, both Democrats, calls on their authority to protect Openas non -profit purposes and to block their planned restructuring. Openai is entered in Delaware and works from San Francisco.
Openaai said in response that “all changes to our existing structure would be ensured that the wider public can benefit from the AI”. It was said that his profit was a company for public services, similar to other AI laboratories such as anthropic and technical billionaire Elon Musk’s Xai, except that Openaai is still preserving a non-profit arm.
“This structure will continue to ensure that the non -profit profit and also grows the non -profit organization, so that we can meet the mission,” said the company in a statement.
The letter is the second petition of state officials this month. The last came from a group of workers and non -profit organizations that focused on protecting Openas billions of dollars in non -profit assets.
Jennings said last autumn that she would “check such a transaction to ensure that the interests of the public are adequately protected”. Bonta’s office applied for further information from Openai at the end of last year, but said that it cannot comment on not to confirm or deny whether it is being examined.
The co -founders of Openai, including the current CEO Sam Altman and Musk, originally started to build safely as a non -profit research laboratory about the mission, what is known as artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the advantage of humanity. Almost a decade later, Openaai reported its market value of 300 billion US dollars and has 400 million weekly users of Chatgpt, its flagship product.
Openaai already has a non-profit subsidiary, but faces a number of challenges in converting its core governance structure. One of them is a lawsuit by Musk who accuses the company and Altman to have revealed the founding principles that prompted Tesla CEO to invest in the charity.
While some of the signatories of the letter this week support Musks, Hedley said that others are “understandably cynical” because Musk also operates his own rival KI company.
The signatories include two economists, Oliver Hart and Joseph Stiglitz, which are awarded the noble, as well as AI pioneers and computer scientists Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics last year and Stuart Russell.
“I like Openais Mission” to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits from all humanity, “and I want you to do this mission instead of enriching your investors,” said Hinton in a statement on Wednesday. “I am glad that there is an effort to keep his mission open in which Elon Musk is not involved.”
Conflicts about Openai’s purpose have been cooked at the San Francisco Institute for a long time and in 2018, Altman’s short-lived fall in 2023 and other top-class descents, contributed to muscle notice.
Hedley, a lawyer from training training, worked for Openai in 2017 and 2018, a time when the non -profit organization still navigated the best ways to manage the technology he wanted to build. In 2023 Altman said that Advanced Ai was promising, but also warned of exceptional risks, from drastic accidents to social disorders.
In recent years, however, Hedley said that he had been concerned with concern, such as Openaai, which was burdened by Chatgpt’s success, increasingly reduced corners for security tests and stormed new products in order to achieve the competitors of the business administration.
“The costs of these decisions will continue to increase if the technology becomes stronger,” he said. “I think that in the new structure that Openai wants, the incentives to make these decisions will increase and there will be no one who can no longer tell them that this cannot say that this is not okay.”
The software engineer Anish Tondwalkar, a former member of the Technical Team of Openai, said that an important assurance in the non-profit charta of Openaai is a “stop-and-assist clause”, which Openai rejects when another organization comes shortly before the achievement of a better human AI.
“If Openai is allowed to become a win, these protective measures and OpenAis can disappear overnight to the public,” said Tondwalkar in a statement on Wednesday.
Another former worker who signed the letter exposes him to bluntly.
“One day Openaai could build a technology that could kill us all,” said Nisan Stenon, a AI engineer who worked at Openaai from 2018 to 2020. “
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