> they are all-in on AGI
What are you basing this on? None of their investor-oriented marketing says this.
What are you basing this on? None of their investor-oriented marketing says this.
> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.
Note that it doesn't say: "Our mission is to maximize shareholder value, and we develop AI systems to do that".
> In order to achieve our mission, we will conduct our business with the following Code of Ethics in mind:
> Obey the law.
> Take care of our members.
> Take care of our employees.
> Respect our suppliers.
> If we do these four things throughout our organization, then we will achieve our ultimate goal, which is to reward our shareholders.
https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/answer_view/a...
To be fair, that's a mission statement paired with a succinct code of ethics.
"OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."
and
"We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome."
See:
(1) https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity (June, 2025) - "We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be."
- " It’s hard to even imagine today what we will have discovered by 2035; maybe we will go from solving high-energy physics one year to beginning space colonization the next year; or from a major materials science breakthrough one year to true high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces the next year."
(2) https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations (Feb, 2025) - "Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity."
- "In a decade, perhaps everyone on earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today."
(3) https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections (Jan, 2025) - "We started OpenAI almost nine years ago because we believed that AGI was possible, and that it could be the most impactful technology in human history"
- "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it."
(4) https://ia.samaltman.com/ (Sep, 2024) - "This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there."
(5) https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge (Dec, 2017) - "A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075."
(I omitted about as many essays. The hype is strong in this one.)