Geoffrey Hinton, the distinguished data scientist generally known as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” is backing Elon Musk in his legal try to block OpenAI from switching to a for-profit company.
Hinton, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics in October, is thought for his work developing artificial neural networks, the inspiration for AI.
“OpenAI was founded as an explicitly safety-focused non-profit and made a wide range of safety related guarantees in its charter,” Hinton said in an announcement published on Monday by Encode, a youth-led advocacy group for human-centered AI, which promotes using AI to enhance human abilities as a substitute of replacing them.
“It received quite a few tax and other advantages from its non-profit status,” Hinton added. “Allowing it to tear all of that up when it becomes inconvenient sends a really bad message to other actors within the ecosystem.”
OpenAI was initially created as a nonprofit research lab in 2015 by chief executive Sam Altman, Musk and others.
In 2019, OpenAI aimed to act more like a startup, so it created a capped-profit model with the nonprofit still controlling the entire company.
But now it’s in search of out a more traditional for-profit structure that may enable the corporate “to lift the obligatory capital with conventional terms like others on this space,” OpenAI said in a blog post last week.
Co-founder Musk, who cut ties with OpenAI in 2018, is in search of to dam the firm’s structure switch.
On Monday, Encode said it had filed an amicus temporary – a legal document providing input on a court case from a bunch that just isn’t directly involved – in support of the lawsuit against OpenAI’s for-profit move.
“The restructuring would fundamentally undermine OpenAI’s commitment to prioritize public safety,” Encode wrote in a press release.
“The nonprofit-controlled structure that OpenAI currently operates under provides essential governance guardrails that might be forfeited if control were transferred to a for-profit entity,” Encode added.
Hinton, who worked at Google for greater than a decade, has criticized OpenAI’s safety measures before.
During a press conference in October, Hinton said Altman is “much less concerned with safety than with profits,” calling the situation “unlucky”.
Last 12 months, after leaving Google, Hinton sounded the alarms on the potential damage AI could wreak on humanity, telling The Recent York Times he regretted his role in developing the technology.
Musk, meanwhile, is arguing that OpenAI executives “deceived” him into co-founding the corporate by playing into his concerns concerning the risks of AI. OpenAI said that Musk wanted the corporate to remodel right into a for-profit structure back in 2017.
In February, he filed a lawsuit against OpenAI accusing it of breaking its nonprofit commitment by partnering with Microsoft.
He withdrew the lawsuit in June, but refiled it in August.
Musk’s own startup, xAI, is a public profit corporation, which is a for-profit company with social and environmental goals. It’s the identical structure OpenAI is trying to create, the corporate said last week.
Geoffrey Hinton, the distinguished data scientist generally known as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” is backing Elon Musk in his legal try to block OpenAI from switching to a for-profit company.
Hinton, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics in October, is thought for his work developing artificial neural networks, the inspiration for AI.
“OpenAI was founded as an explicitly safety-focused non-profit and made a wide range of safety related guarantees in its charter,” Hinton said in an announcement published on Monday by Encode, a youth-led advocacy group for human-centered AI, which promotes using AI to enhance human abilities as a substitute of replacing them.
“It received quite a few tax and other advantages from its non-profit status,” Hinton added. “Allowing it to tear all of that up when it becomes inconvenient sends a really bad message to other actors within the ecosystem.”
OpenAI was initially created as a nonprofit research lab in 2015 by chief executive Sam Altman, Musk and others.
In 2019, OpenAI aimed to act more like a startup, so it created a capped-profit model with the nonprofit still controlling the entire company.
But now it’s in search of out a more traditional for-profit structure that may enable the corporate “to lift the obligatory capital with conventional terms like others on this space,” OpenAI said in a blog post last week.
Co-founder Musk, who cut ties with OpenAI in 2018, is in search of to dam the firm’s structure switch.
On Monday, Encode said it had filed an amicus temporary – a legal document providing input on a court case from a bunch that just isn’t directly involved – in support of the lawsuit against OpenAI’s for-profit move.
“The restructuring would fundamentally undermine OpenAI’s commitment to prioritize public safety,” Encode wrote in a press release.
“The nonprofit-controlled structure that OpenAI currently operates under provides essential governance guardrails that might be forfeited if control were transferred to a for-profit entity,” Encode added.
Hinton, who worked at Google for greater than a decade, has criticized OpenAI’s safety measures before.
During a press conference in October, Hinton said Altman is “much less concerned with safety than with profits,” calling the situation “unlucky”.
Last 12 months, after leaving Google, Hinton sounded the alarms on the potential damage AI could wreak on humanity, telling The Recent York Times he regretted his role in developing the technology.
Musk, meanwhile, is arguing that OpenAI executives “deceived” him into co-founding the corporate by playing into his concerns concerning the risks of AI. OpenAI said that Musk wanted the corporate to remodel right into a for-profit structure back in 2017.
In February, he filed a lawsuit against OpenAI accusing it of breaking its nonprofit commitment by partnering with Microsoft.
He withdrew the lawsuit in June, but refiled it in August.
Musk’s own startup, xAI, is a public profit corporation, which is a for-profit company with social and environmental goals. It’s the identical structure OpenAI is trying to create, the corporate said last week.
