Opinion | OpenAI Could Be a Force for Good if It Can Answer These Questions First - The New York Times

Mr. Kassoy is a co-founder and co-chair of B Lab, the nonprofit that oversees B Corp certification and helped write and advocate benefit corporation legislation. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up behind ChatGPT, is now worth as much as Goldman Sachs or AT&T. OpenAI has also said it intends to shed its status as a nonprofit to become a for-profit business within two years. Outside experts and its employees have expressed concern that as a result, the company will shy away from its founding purpose — to build safe A.I. to “benefit all of humanity” — in favor of earning profits for investors. Artificial intelligence may be the most consequential technological advance in our lifetime, and OpenAI is unique in the breadth of its potential impact. Its product could displace workers in far-flung industries, from customer service to radiology to film production. Its work is so energy-hungry that it could knock off track the planet’s progress on climate change. I’m not a defense exper

Mr. Kassoy is a co-founder and co-chair of B Lab, the nonprofit that oversees B Corp certification and helped write and advocate benefit corporation legislation. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up behind ChatGPT, is now worth as much as Goldman Sachs or AT&T. OpenAI has also said it intends to shed its status as a nonprofit to become a for-profit business within two years. Outside experts and its employees have expressed concern that as a result, the company will shy away from its founding purpose — to build safe A.I. to “benefit all of humanity” — in favor of earning profits for inv