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The word 'ethic' doesn't appear in this document.

This is a phrasing nitpick; the contents clearly say that they intend to act ethically, and say things about what they think acting ethically means. For example this paragraph:

> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

I'll grant that it was a nitpick and they describe an ethics.

But I don't think I'm alone in being awfully tired of tech companies that talk about the benefit of all then sell our personal data or make military robots or manipulate our news. Where's the meat behind these promises and where's the accountability for not avoiding uses of AI that harm humanity?

Tech companies often find that profit incentives undermine the good intentions they started with. Fortunately, OpenAI is a nonprofit organization; it has no personal data to sell and no shady contracting jobs to turn away. That certainly doesn't fully immunize them from wrongdoing, but it should make it easier.

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