“Openai files” are pushing for surveillance in the race to act

Openai CEO Sam Altman said that humanity was only in years to develop an artificial general intelligence that could automate most human workers. If it is true, then humanity also deserves to understand and have its say in people and mechanics behind such an incredible and destabilizing force.

This is the guiding goal behind “OPENAI files», An archive project of the Midas project and the Tech Oversight project, two non -profit technological surveillance organizations. Files are a “collection of documented concerns about governance practices, the integrity of leadership and organizational culture in Openai”. Beyond the awareness, the objective of the files is to offer a way to follow for Openai and other AI leaders who focus on responsible governance, ethical leadership and shared advantages.

“Governance structures and the integrity of leadership guiding a project as important as it must reflect the magnitude and gravity of the mission,” said the website Vision of change. “Companies leading to AGE must be held and must be held to exceptionally high standards.”

Until now, the race for domination in AI has resulted in gross scaling – a state of growth in all costs that has led businesses like OPENAI causing current breakdowns And Increase in electricity costs For local consumers. The marketing rush also led companies to send products before putting necessary guaranteesas pressure of investors to transform a profit.

This investor pressure changed the central structure of Openai. The Openai files detail how, in its first non -profit days, Openai had initially capped the profits of investors at a maximum of 100 times so that any product of acting would go to humanity. The company has since announced its intention to remove this ceiling, admitting that it has made such modifications to appease investors who made conditional funding to structural reforms.

The files highlight problems such as the evaluation processes of OpenAi security and the “culture of carelessness”, as well as the potential conflicts of interest of the members of the board of directors of Openai and Altman himself. They include a list of startups that could be in Altman’s own investment portfolio which also have companies overlapping with Openai.

The files also question the integrity of Altman, which was a subject of speculation since senior employees tried to overthrow it in 2023 on “a deceptive and chaotic behavior”.

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The questions and solutions raised by OPENAI files remind us that the enormous power is based in the hands of a few, with little transparency and limited surveillance. The files give an overview of this black box and aim to move the conversation of inevitability to responsibility.