Catherine Bracey

the independence of scientific research if all of this research is funded by an entity that has an irreconcilable conflict of interest.

We would not accept the science around nicotine that tobacco companies were funding.

We do not accept the science around alcohol addiction that the

Alcohol companies fund.

We do not accept the science around sugared beverages from the soda industry.

And we should not accept that this scientific research is funded by an entity that has a vested financial interest in the outcome.

And that is why it is so critically important that the OpenAI Foundation actually be independent, that it have an independent board, that it can deploy its resources independently and

that the research that it is funding is independent.

And if you worry about, if you wonder about whether this is actually true, you should ask any of the researchers who were given access to Facebook's data and ask what happened to them.

And they will tell you that it does not work to do research, independent research that is funded by the tech industry on the impact of the tech industry's own platforms.

Well, Google has a corporate foundation.

It's called Google.org.

And I expect in this structure, with the tension and the conflict of interest that the OpenAI Foundation has, that it will operate much more like Google.org, which is essentially an arm of the marketing department, a corporate social responsibility program.

that sort of gives money to innocuous groups, but will never do anything that undercuts Google's priorities.

And I think if you read between the lines of OpenAI's press release, the work they say they want to continue doing with community funding is all about convincing people about the importance and value and benefit in using AI.

I mean, that's a market building opportunity for them.

That's not actually anything that's going to ensure that

AI is developed for the benefit of humanity.

And so, no, I don't think that they're going to operate any differently than any of the other companies, you know, corporate social responsibility arms.

That's essentially what they have built here.