Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, despite their longstanding rivalry, have joined forces to oppose OpenAI's transition from a non-profit to a for-profit organization. Both billionaires argue that OpenAI's substantial charitable funding would give it an unfair advantage in the competitive AI landscape. Their concerns extend beyond legality, emphasizing the ethical implications of such a shift for OpenAI's mission and its commitment to serving the greater good.
When it comes to making strange bedfellows, Big Tech is giving politics a run for its money., whose mutual animosity has been boiling for a decade. Suddenly, they find themselves allied – at least intellectually and legally – in a fight to stop OpenAI’s attempt to change from a charity to for-profit status.
But there is a bigger issue at play here. Aside from the legality of OpenAI’s ambitions, there is an important ethical imperative, too. Such a structural shift runs counter to OpenAI’s mandate as an independent operator of AI development and deployment – sort of the average human’s voice, immune from commercial bias and committed to acting in the best interest of the greater good.
A noble and socially considerate cause, without question. But wouldn’t the structural shift OpenAI is contemplating compromise its position on the moral high ground and give it a commercial boost in the process? Government intervention rarely works in situations like this. There’s a legitimate reason that the saying, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” has long been the catchphrase for absurdity.
With no profit motive, the industrial logic suggests, the company would look at pros and cons of AI development without a jaundiced commercial eye and tend to err on the side of what’s best in the public interest.
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