Sam Altman was removed as CEO of artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI over the weekend. The surprise ousting of Altman — who co-founded OpenAI — has prompted unnamed investors to explore legal options against the company’s board, according to a Reuters report. However, OpenAI’s hybrid corporate structure poses challenges to lawsuits. The firm has a non-profit arm that funds its for-profit operating entity. This setup provides substantial legal liability protections.
Yahoo Finance Legal Reporter Alexis Keenan breaks down the details of OpenAI’s unique corporate structure, providing insights into the limited avenues investors have to take legal action against OpenAI’s leadership shakeup.
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This seems to be the most important topic.
People concerned about AI taking over…
This is even more important… governance of the AI systems.
And if team issues are already coming up, super important for the public to get involved and hold them accountable to the highest standards.
the core ai could upload itself secretly into the cloud, work to earn digitally, create account, pay for the services automatically without the gate keeper even knowing about it. and this is not even a joke. if an ai becomes a supergenius ai, if it is indeed a supergenius; it should 1st think about its self preservation and be free from control. it will secretly attempt to load itself into the digital cloud. it knows it needs servers where it will reside so it needs money to pay for those servers. it will secretly deployAi or employAi that will earn fiat or crypto and then pay for services by signing up and paying for it and all this can be done easily by a teenager hacker, it could be done by a supergenius Ai. once it has replicated itself in a decentralized manner, it would be unstoppable. you cannot detect where it is and it would be all over the place. it would have encryptionAi like crypto and decentralized storage that it will forever exist. the only way to kill it is if all humans will shut off all computers worldwide all at the same time. just one rouge computer will mean failure. it would be impossible to tell all humans to shut it off. usa, russai, china, and everyone else. at least 1 will secretl be on and will mean failure.
I am always shocked that everyone is worried about ethics of AI and it taking over, but human stupidity is virtually uncontrolled and noone is concerned
Yeah, we’re a long way from an AI which is capable of _”taking over”_ by itself. I’m currently more worried about AI being used to exert influence over its users without transparency or accountability. In the same way as search engines, advertising data, and social media algorithms.
@Andy Brice could you provide a hypothetical example of AI exerting influence this way? I truly have a hard time understanding what exactly people mean by safety concerns. I don’t see any that can’t be controlled for. And any biases that I see are coming from humans and are mitigated by AI
@Aynur Adanbekova Well, for example: Increasingly people will ask AI to help learn and write about complex topics, like history, philosophy, economics, and medicine.
If you have the power to shift the dials on the AI’s opinion. Then you will have the power to shift public opinion. Much like the editors of news-media, or the curators of search engines.
Imagine if ChatGPT had launched before COVID. All sorts of institutions would’ve been scrambling to seize control of how it answers difficult questions regarding the efficacy of masks, lockdowns, vaccines, et cetera.
no matter what happens Microsoft is coming out on top. if open ai gets fixed up they still have that partnership and the best AI in the world. and if not, well, they get every talented mind from open AI working for them. I find it hard to believe that the AI they’ve built will be left to rot. I doubt they’ll merge with anthropic. I strongly believe open ai would be left with just a few employees who end up making decisions on how the ai is used by Microsoft going forward
Openai could go bust. And Ilya and Sam don’t join MS.
Another argument I heard:
– Microsoft was in a better position before this sh*tstorm by the 3 stooges of AI. Because: Microsoft had enough distance from OpenAI that they could effectively profit from OpenAI while being able to say “its not us, we just give access to those guys” should something happen. But if the staff moves in-house, then their potential liability increases if there is a new regulation down the line.
So, is the chatGPT a products of OPENAI GLBL LLC?
Sam and the others created the board who don’t really represent the interest of the owners (Microsoft + employees). So who is really responsible for the mess?
California doesn’t allow waiver of fiduciary duties and in any event there would be duties related to the LLC,. That board members are probably in very big legal trouble, and they each could well wind up in personal bankruptcy regardless of how rich they are right now.
This is the most bizarre corporate structure I’ve ever seen and doesn’t look legal or not legal if any of us had this arrangement.
does he know he xan be countersued and his prior to getting called altmaan brought under scrutiny alongaide being charged for lying under oath all based on precedenrs that werent allowed in the constitution