AI would be used for “the good of the world,” Altman wrote, adding that in some cases, “the five of us would decide” how AI would be deployed.
By 2017, Musk was fighting for control of the company, but said he could expand OpenAI’s board to as many as 16 members “if this board really ends up deciding the fate of the world.”
“It reminds me of manifest-destiny language,” said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI’s impact on society. She’s referring there to the 19th-century philosophy that America’s God-given fate was to dominate the continent.
She summarized OpenAI’s early philosophy like so: “Only I am responsible enough to have control over this technology.”
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