More than 30 top experts—including nine former OpenAI employees—have urged the attorneys general of California and Delaware to intervene in OpenAI’s proposed restructuring, which would allow the company to buy itself out from under its nonprofit’s control. In an open letter, they warn that the move would eliminate key governance safeguards and endanger OpenAI’s founding mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) “benefits all of humanity.”
The group, which also includes AI “godfather” Geoffrey Hinton, Hugging Face researcher and chief ethics scientist Margaret Mitchell, and Stuart Russell, computer science professor at UC Berkeley, published the open letter today on a website called Not For Private Gain and also shared the letter with OpenAI’s nonprofit board of directors.
