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OpenAI's charter is dead. I expect future boards to amend it.

Its useful PR pretext for their regulatory advocacy, and subjective enough that if they are careful not to be too obvious about specifically pushing one company’s commercial interest, they can probably get away with it forever, so why would it be any deader than when Sam was CEO before and not substantively guided by it.

People keep saying this but is there any evidence that any of this was related to the charter?

The only evidence I have is that the board members that were removed had less business connections than the ones that replaced them.

The point of the board is to ensure the charter is being followed, when the biggest concern is "is our commercialization getting in the way of our charter" what else does it mean to replace "academics" with "businesspeople"?

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