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OpenAI just changed its principles. Here’s what’s changing

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Both versions of the company’s principles say that OpenAI’s mission is to guarantee this technology “benefits all of humanity,” but the 2018 version explicitly mentions building it safely and beneficially.

“Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity,” the document reads. “We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfil our mission, but will always diligently act to minimise conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.”

The 2026 version, however, said it needs to continue to build safe systems, but that society needs to contend with “each successive level of AI capability, understand it, integrate it, and figure out the best path forward together.” ...

The way forward, as CEO and cofounder Sam Altman sees it in 2026, is to democratise AI at all levels by giving everyone access to it and resisting the idea that the technology could “consolidate power in the hands of the few”. ... [philNote: "resistance is useless."]

AGI has a “ring of power” to it that “makes people do crazy things,” Altman wrote. To fight back, he said the only solution is to “orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring.” ...

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