Non-profit organizations

April 24 - Technology media outlet The Decoder published a blog post yesterday (April 23) reporting that former OpenAI employees, researchers, and nonprofit organizations have joined together to issue an open letter strongly calling on regulators to block OpenAI's proposed corporate restructuring plan. Founded in 2015, OpenAI began as a nonprofit organization to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence (AGI) development was aligned with the public interest. The company established a for-profit subsidiary, OpenAI LP, in 2019 in order to raise funds, but it is still run by the nonprofit...

December 29, 2012 - Encode, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence (AI) safety legislation, has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the District Court for the Northern District of California in support of Elon Musk's request for an injunction to prevent OpenAI from turning into a for-profit company. In its proposed brief, filed Friday afternoon, Encode said that OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit company would "undermine" its mission to "develop and deploy ...... transformative technologies in ways that are safe and beneficial to the public. ". The brief reads, "OpenAI and its chief executive...