Elon Musk recently attempted an unsolicited takeover of OpenAI that was rejected by CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI’s nonprofit board.
Now the creator of ChatGPT reportedly wants to make sure that any future coups from the world’s richest man — or any other investor — won’t be successful.
According to a report in the Financial Times, the changes being discussed would give OpenAI’s existing nonprofit directors special voting rights, allowing them to retain power over OpenAI even as the artificial intelligence organization restructures into a for-profit enterprise known as a public benefit corporation.
By concentrating such power in OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, the AI upstart could rebut Musk’s argument that it has moved away from its original charitable mission. It could also allow board members to potentially overrule other backers of the for-profit enterprise, such as Microsoft (MSFT)…
