One big question hanging over OpenAI's transition to for-profit – Vox

OpenAI’s transition isn’t what you think. The stakes are tens of billions of dollars — and the future of AI.
When it was founded in 2015, artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI was a nonprofit organization. The idealistic mission: to make sure the high-stakes work they were doing on artificial intelligence served the whole world. This was necessary because — according to the founders’ fervent belief, at least — it would transform the whole world.
In some ways since then, OpenAI […]
One big question hanging over OpenAI's transition to for-profit – Vox