Inside the battle to restructure companies in Openai

Late last year, Bell, Blackwell, and Aguilar decided to dust off the old play book. They assigned a legal memorandum that repeated the Public Prosecutor’s strength regarding the undesirable situation for charitable funds and summoned their contacts to form an alliance for more than 50 community organizations working together to try to influence the future of one of the hottest technology companies in the world.

Blackwell says that some members of the group are concerned that Openai’s plans can threaten the safety of the non -profit sector as a whole. They argue that donors may be reluctant to continue to contribute if they feel that the money allocated to the public good can be peeled in profitable endeavors.

California Public Prosecutor Rob Punta urged the Openai and Spoyai coalition to review I launched a campaign In January to attract the public’s attention to this issue. This effort has received widespread support, including some Former Openai employees Artificial intelligence researchers, who also urged Punta’s counterpart in Dilayer – where Openai – was rented to ensure that its mission was not undermined by restructuring. (Both the public prosecutor’s offices said they were investigating the matter, but they provided a few details.)

By March, Openai wanted to meet the Auguilar Alliance for Call. At the offices of the San Francisco Foundation, Blackwell, Agilar, and another leader of an alliance with two international affairs employees in Openai, including Debie Mesloh, the former chief adviser to California lawyer at the time, Kamala Harris.

Openai’s Helps says that the meeting raised “a number of misconceptions about our structure of companies – which seemed to be the frequency of those expressed by Musk.” Openai says notes on developing its non -profit mission. But she left without treating basic questions about the amount of financing and independence that Openai will carry the charitable arm.

“A big curse deal”

Another present at the meeting was Daniel Zengal, a former retired advisor for several rulers in California who are now cheering with Openai. Mesloh and other corporate leaders who knew Zingale from California Politics wanted to help him hold a group of stars from the charitable world to advise how Openai spend on its charitable money and distributing its technology to other non -profit organizations. In 2023, The current non -profit Openai arm It granted more than $ 2.6 million in grants, including education institutions, artificial intelligence safety groups and economics researcher.

Zingale says that the invitation by the Agilar external coalition helped to play a role in establishing the Openai Consultative Committee, which started the meeting on April 21 and whose recommendations are due to July 20 ((Openai’s official spokesman, who says the committee was born before assuming “the desire to participate in societies.”

Among its members are veteran political advisor Jacques Oliver, former CEO of the media Monica Lausano, and a 95 -year -old labor activist, Herta. They did not respond to the requests for comment.

Zingale also helped recruit Robert Ross, who previously spent about a quarter of a century as California Endowment, one of the non -profit organizations that emerged from health care transfers in the 1990s. Ross says his previous organization is widely recognized as a non -profit success, and he wants the same thing to be correct in Openai.

“This is a great deal of curse in the civil and political circles that will have huge consequences for civil society and marginalized and disadvantaged societies,” says Ross. “Our mission is more on the spending side – how the assets should be published. However, it is incomplete if we don’t talk to governance cases. I think you will see a report that will speak to both cases.”

Agilar says he is skeptical of the efforts of the Consulting Committee. Although the committee is supposed to reach recommendations on how to help Openai to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to take advantage of artificial intelligence tools, Zingale and Ross say they have little experience in using artificial intelligence.

“This is a great endeavor to me, because what I know about artificial intelligence can match the shower,” Ross says, adding that he is keen to learn from others who have more knowledgeable.