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ChatGPT makerOpenAInamed members to its newly formed nonprofit commission on Tuesday, which will guide the company’s philanthropic efforts.
Microsoft-backedOpenAIin December outlined a plan torevamp its corporate structure, saying it would create a public benefit corporation to manage its growing business and ease the restrictions imposed by its existingnonprofitparent.
OpenAI, which last month said it would raise up to $40 billion in a new funding round valuing the company at$300 billion, named Daniel Zingale, who has held senior leadership roles across California, as the commission’s convener.
Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Robert Ross and Jack Oliver, all of whom have prior experience with community-based organizations, have been appointed asadvisorsto the new commission,formed earlier this month.
“Theadvisorswill receive learnings and input from the community on howOpenAI’s philanthropy can address long-term systemic issues, while also considering both the promise and risks of AI,”OpenAIsaid in a blog post.
They will adviseOpenAI’s board on directing community engagement processes, drawing insights from people and organizations involved in health, science, education, and public services. The commission is expected to submit its findings to the board within 90 days.
Last year, Elon Musk, who co-foundedOpenAIin 2015,suedthe AI startup and its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk accusedOpenAIof straying from its original mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity, and focusing on corporate profits instead.
A dozen former-OpenAIemployees last week filed a legal brief backing Musk’s lawsuit.
OpenAIcountersuedMusk last week, citing a pattern of harassment by him, and asking a federal judge to stop him from any “further unlawful and unfair action” againstOpenAIin a court case over the future structure of the firm that helped launch the AI revolution.
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