OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman wants to “build a brain for the world”, as he revealed non-profit will continue to be in control of the organisation.
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman wants to “build a brain for the world”, as he outlined a crucial decision about its future.
The 40-year-old chief executive of OpenAI, which is the parent of artificial intelligence service ChatGPT, has penned an open letter to staff, shared on the artificial intelligence research organisation’s website, in which he revealed OpenAI will continue to be overseen as a non-profit.
He wrote: “We want to put incredible tools in the hands of everyone… we want to open source very capable models. We want to give our users a great deal of freedom in how we let them use our tools within broad boundaries, even if we don’t always share the same moral framework, and to let our users make decisions about the behaviour of ChatGPT.
“We want to build a brain for the world and make it super easy for people to use for whatever they want.”
Sam also admitted not all of AI will be “used for good”, but he hopes the “good will outweigh the bad by orders of magnitude”.
He added: “We are moving to a normal capital structure where everyone has stock.
“This is not a sale, but a change of structure to something simpler.
“It will of course not be all used for good, but we trust humanity and think the good will outweigh the bad by orders of magnitude.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: ‘We want to build a brain for the world’
