The increasing capabilities of present day systems mean it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to share the principles, economic mechanisms, and governance models that are core to our respective missions and operations.

Jul 21, 2023 · OpenAI and other leading AI labs are making a set of voluntary commitments to reinforce the safety, security and trustworthiness of AI technology and our services. This process, coordinated by the White House, is an important step in advancing meaningful and effective AI governance, both in the US and around the world.

Our structure We are governed by a nonprofit and our unique capped-profit model drives our commitment to safety. This means that as AI becomes more powerful, we can redistribute profits from our work to maximize the social and economic benefits of AI technology.

May 22, 2023 · But the governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight. We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults ⁠ for AI systems.

Mar 8, 2024 · The Board also announced the adoption of important improvements to OpenAI’s governance structure. Key enhancements include: Adopting a new set of corporate governance guidelines; Strengthening OpenAI’s Conflict of Interest Policy;

discussion about how to best structure accountability for risks from agentic AI systems. For example, they may inform discussion around what regulation of AI agent development might look like, or how

Dec 27, 2024 · OpenAI’s Board of Directors is evaluating our corporate structure in order to best support the mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) 1 benefits all of humanity, with three objectives:

Dec 14, 2023 · We enumerate the questions and uncertainties around operationalizing each of these practices that must be addressed before such practices can be codified. We then highlight categories of indirect impacts from the wide-scale adoption of agentic AI systems, which are likely to necessitate additional governance frameworks.

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

Jun 20, 2016 · We’re trying to build AI as part of a larger community, and we want to share our plans and capabilities along the way. We’re also working to solidify our organization’s governance structure and will share our thoughts on that later this year.