Openai CEO SAM Altman has said that humanity is only years of developing artificial general intelligence that could automate most human labor. If this is true, humanity also deserves to understand and make an opinion on people and mechanics behind such an incredible and destabilizing force.
This is the purpose behind “The Openai files“An archive project of the Midas project and the technological supervision project, two non -profit surveillance organizations. The files are a” collection of concerns documented with governance practices, the integrity of leadership and organizational culture in Openai. “Beyond raising awareness, the purpose of the files is to propose a path forward for Openai and other leaders in Openai Responsible, ethical leadership and shared benefits.
“The structures of governance and the integrity of leadership guide a project as important as this must reflect the magnitude and severity of the mission,” says the website Vision of change. “Companies that lead to AGI race must be retained and must remain, exceptionally, exceptionally high standards.”
So far, the degree to dominating the AI has given rise to a gross reduction: a growth mentality at all the costs it has led to companies such as Openai to reduce content without consent to training and build mass data centers that are causing electrical interruptions and Increased electricity costs For local consumers. The rush to market has also brought companies to send products before putting Necessary safeguardsas the pressure of investors to turn a profit.
This pressure from investors has changed the basic Openai structure. Openai files detail how, in their first non -profit days, Openai had initially achieved the benefits of investors at a maximum of 100x so that the income to achieve AGI would be used for humanity. Since then, the company has announced the plans to eliminate this lid, admitting that it has made these changes to quench investors who made funding condition to structural reforms.
The files highlight problems such as the Openai Security Assessment processes and the “culture of recklessness”, as well as the possible conflicts of interest of the members of the Openai Council and Altman himself. They include a list of startups that could be in the Altman investment portfolio that also have Openai overlapping companies.
The files also question the integrity of Altman, which has been a speculation topic since senior employees tried to highlight it in 2023 for “misleading and chaotic behavior”.
“I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the AGI button,” Ilya Sutskever, ex -scientific of the Openai, report He said at that moment.
The questions and solutions raised by the Openai files remind us that a huge power rests in the hands of a few, with little transparency and limited supervision. The files provide a vision of this black picture and aim to change the conversation from inevitability to accountability.
