To Continue Innovating, OpenAI Should Return to Its Nonprofit Roots

There’s much speculation about the reasons for the abrupt removal and subsequent return of Sam Altman as the CEO of OpenAI. Irrespective of who leads the company going forward, OpenAI faces a fundamental challenge in reconciling its mission with its choice of corporate structure and business model. To solve it, we can learn from the history of tech innovations.

Much of the discourse on OpenAI’s dysfunction has focused on tribal disputes—management against the board, AI safety advocates against business …

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