Sarah Hirshander
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Anthropic came across in that whole negotiation as a company that was willing to stand up against the Pentagon to put down some red lines where it did and did not want its technology to be used, whereas OpenAI
simply did not come across that way.
It's unclear exactly what those negotiations looked like, but that is at least sort of what the public has taken, I think, from those interactions.
And then we've also seen OpenAI get into a little bit of trouble because of some of its lobbying around AI safety.
It's been opposed to different statewide AI safety measures, and they say that they do that because they want a federal safety measure.
They're kind of collaborating with the
with the Trump administration on.
But at the same time, I think a lot of critics have raised alarms about the fact that they've been opposed to those kinds of safety measures, which Anthropic, again, this competitor to OpenAI, has embraced.
I think at least from the public's perception, I'm not saying that this is everything that's going on within OpenAI, but the perception is certainly not that OpenAI is stepping forward in a real leadership way around what it means to be an ethical AI company, specifically given its nonprofit roots.
So I spoke to a spokesperson at Opening Eye who says that there is a lot going on behind the scenes, but there is not that a lot that we've been seeing so far.
Like I said, we have seen that $40.5 million going to different community nonprofits, which is great.
I talked to some of the nonprofits.
But I think $40.5 million is, I did the math here, like on the back of a napkin, but like it's about 0.02%.
And while OpenAI has said that it will be giving, as an initial promise, $25 billion to charity, falling into two buckets.
One is focused on scientific research and health, and one is focused on what they're calling AI resilience.
We have no idea what that's actually going to look like.
And again, I'm giving OpenAI the benefit of the doubt.