This is a linkpost for https://openai.com/index/why-our-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mission/
Yeah so, I consider this writeup utter trash, current OpenAI board members should be ashamed of having explicitly or implicitly signed off on it, employees should be embarrassed to be a part of it, etc.
That aside:
Are they going to keep the Charter and merge-and-assist? (Has this been dead in the water for years now anyway? Are there reasons Anthropic hasn't said something similar in public?)
Is it necessary to completely expunge the non-profit from oversight and relevance to day-to-day operations? (Probably not!)
The section "The Future":