June 6, 2024 June 2024 Follow Up Letter to California Attorney General Regarding OpenAI’s Nonprofit StatusBy Robert WeissmanShare FacebookTwitterEmailDownload the PDFDear Attorney General Bonta and Deputy Attorney General Lamerdin:This letter is to follow up on my letters from January 9 and March 5 encouraging you to investigate OpenAI, Inc.’s charitable status. OpenAI’s Safety Leaders Depart and OpenAI Closes its Safety TeamOn May 14, OpenAI’s safety leaders resigned: Ilya Sutskever[1] was one of OpenAI’s founders and co-lead of OpenAI’s long-term safety (“superalignment”) team; Jan Leike[2] was the other long-term safety team co-lead. But he said he felt compelled to leave for reasons that speak directly to the issue of OpenAI’s nonprofit status. By contrast, prior to the November 2023 board shake-up, the board included experts on AI safety and ethics. All of these issues also speak directly to OpenAI’s nonprofit status.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 07, 2024 02:40 UTC