No matter how it shakes out at OpenAI, one thing is clear: all of the leading AI companies are firmly for-profit entities and the illusion of OpenAI as a nonprofit optimizing for humanity is gone.
My latest for New York Times Opinion imagines what it would take to truly build AI in the public interest (spoiler: it could look like public libraries, but for compute):
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/the-sam-altman-openai-board-microsoft.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE0.USnQ.Or3s2jZFvj_R&smid=url-share
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