OpenAI’s advisory board calls for continued and strengthened nonprofit oversight
MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, JUL 17 – Maryland Comptroller calls for enhanced oversight to ensure OpenAI's nonprofit funding supports public interest and economic opportunity, with $23 million reported in assets in 2023.
- A report released Thursday by a panel assembled to advise OpenAI proposed revisions to its nonprofit framework and outlined a broad vision for making AI more accessible.
- The report arose amid OpenAI’s ongoing evolution from a 2015 nonprofit lab to a billion-dollar for-profit entity, highlighted by the November 2023 ouster of CEO Sam Altman.
- The commission proposes immediate resource allocation to the nonprofit for public interest, emphasizes human leadership, and supports AI literacy and access for everyday people.
- Daniel Zingale, convener of the commission, stated the technology OpenAI develops is “too consequential” to be governed by one sector and called for funding theater, art, and health as part of a public mission.
- These recommendations suggest sustained nonprofit control over OpenAI, underscoring the importance of transparency and inclusive governance to ensure AI benefits humanity widely and evenly.
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OpenAI's advisory board calls for continued and strengthened nonprofit oversight
An advisory board convened by OpenAI says it should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing is “too consequential” to be governed by a corporation alone.
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OpenAI’s advisory board calls for continued and strengthened nonprofit oversight - Regional Media News
OpenAI should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing is “too consequential” to be governed by a corporation alone. That is the message from an advisory board convened by OpenAI to give it recommendations about its nonprofit structure — delivered in a report released Thursday, along with a sweeping vision for democratizing AI and reforming philanthropy. “We think it’s too important…
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