Catherine Bracey

OpenAI's mission above all else.

And that means that anything that is created under that sort of tax-exempt banner is owned by the charitable sector, can never be divested from the charitable sector.

So when they decided they were going to split the nonprofit from the for-profit, they found that actually legally they could not do that without divesting both the intellectual property that the nonprofit owned, including all of the intellectual property that was created,

you know, that underlies the, you know, chat GPT model and the equity stake that the nonprofit owned in the for-profit company.

And so I think they looked at that price tag and they said, that's not a price we're willing to pay.

And so instead of sort of splitting the nonprofit from the for-profit, they decided to sort of continue down this path of nonprofit ownership, which in my mind is completely untenable, unsustainable, and irreconcilable.

Basically, every day that OpenAI exists, they are violating the law.

And actually what they're doing is just daring the attorney general to hold them accountable for it.

I think they think they're too big to be held accountable and they need the AG to assume that he will not win a case.

And that's kind of what they've done.

They've loaded up on lawyers and they are making a bet that the AG will not sort of pursue this in any way that's actually meaningful.

Right.

I mean, I think as the kids would say, they're playing in our faces.

I mean, they expect us to take their word that as they operate, as they make deals with the Defense Department to develop autonomous weapons and surveillance systems on American citizens, as they, you know, battle parents in court whose children have committed suicide in

due to conversations that these kids were having with their chatbots.

And as they subpoena these parents for the list of people who attended their children's memorial service as part of those lawsuits, they expect us to believe that the nonprofit mission is being prioritized over the

the profit motivation of the company.

We all know that OpenAI's overriding priority is to quote unquote win the AI race.

It's to beat out the competition in the marketplace and it's to establish the biggest AI company they can create.

And to the extent that the