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Jill Horwitz, Professor of Law and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Legal complications await if OpenAI tries to shake off control by the nonprofit that owns the rapidly growing tech company

Severing ties to its nonprofit owner would be far more easily said than done. rob dobi/Moment via Getty Images

OpenAI, the tech company that created the popular ChatGPT chatbot, is at a crossroads.

It began as a nonprofit dedicated to developing artificial intelligence systems smarter than humans. Since its founding, OpenAI has boasted that it was upholding its nonprofit goal – “to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity.”

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