OpenAI’s new nonprofit commission may be more about maximizing its for-profit opportunity than it is about philanthropy

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the AI Action Summit in Paris in February. The company just announced a high-profile commission to advise its nonprofit—but the move may be more about gathering public support for its plan to free its for-profit arm from the control of its nonprofit than it is about philanthropy.

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