A group of former Opena employees on Friday presented a proposed Amicus summary in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit against Openai, opposing OpenAi’s planned conversion from a non-profit to a lucrative corporation.
The short names twelve former Openai employees: Steven Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Chowrsh, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Kokotajlo, Gretchen Krueger, Todor Markov, Richard Ojgo, Girish Sastry, William Saunders, Carrol Wainwright and Jeffrey Wu. This does the opportunity, if Openai’s non -profit control of the organization’s business operations, he would “radically violate its mission”.
Some of the former staff have spoken against Openai practices publicly before. Krueger has called on the company to improve its responsibility and transparency, while Kokotajlo and Saunders previously warned that Openai is in a “reckless” race for him. Wainwright has said that Openai “should not (trust) when promising to do the right thing later.”
In a statement, an Openai spokesman said Openai’s non -profit “is nowhere to go” and that the organization’s mission “will remain the same”.
“Our board has been very clear,” spokesman Techcrunch told by email. “We are turning our existing lucrative wing into a corporation of public benefits (PBC)-the same structure as other laboratories as anthropic-where some of these former employees now work-and (the beginning of musk) Xai.”
Openai was founded as non -profit in 2015, but turned into a “lucrative covered” in 2019, and is now trying to restructure once again in a PBC. When it moved to a lucrative covered, Openai held its nonprofit, which currently has a controlling action on the corporate side of the organization.
Musk’s lawsuit against Openai accuses the start of abandoning his non -profit mission, which aimed to provide his benefits of seeking all mankind. Musk had requested a preliminary order to stop the Openai conversion. One federal judge denied the request, but allowed the case to go to a jury trial in the spring of 2026.
According to the brief summary of the employees of the former Openai, the current structure of Openai-a nonprofit controlling a group of other affiliates-is an “essential part” of its general and “critical” strategy for the mission of the organization. Restructuring that removes the nonprofit controlling role would not only oppose the Openai mission and the statute commitments, but also “violates the trust of employees, donors and other stakeholders who joined and supported the organization based on these commitments,” the summary states.
“Openai was committed to some key principles for executing (his) mission in their statute document,” it said in February. “These commitments were taken extremely serious within the company and were constantly communicated and treated from within as binding. The court must accept that maintaining nonprofit governance is essential for preserving the unique OpenAi structure, which was created to ensure that general artificial intelligence benefits from humanity rather than serving narrow financial interests.”
The general artificial intelligence, or AGI, is widely understood that it means one that can fulfill any task that a person can.
According to the summary, Openai often used his structure as a recruitment tool – and repeatedly assured staff that nonprofit control was “critical” in executing his mission. The abbreviation recounts a comprehensive OpenAi meeting at the end of 2020, during which Openai Sam Altman’s CEO allegedly stressed that the governance and supervision of nonprofits were “primary” in “guaranteeing security and extensive social benefits were with priority over short -term financial profits”.
“In recruiting conversations with candidates, it was common to quote the unique structure of Openai’s governance as a critical differential factor between Openai and competitors like Google or Anthropic and an important reason they should consider joining the company,” the summary said. “This same reason was often used to persuade employees who were thinking of leaving for competitors to stay in Openai – including some of us.”
Short warnings that should be allowed to be turned into a lucrative, can be stimulated to “potentially (cut) corners” over security and develop powerful “concentrated among its shareholders”. A lucrative Openai would have few reasons to adhere to the “Union and Assistant” clause in the current statute of Openai, who vows that Openai will stop competing and assisting any project “related to values, aware of security” AGI arrives before it does, claims the summary.
Former Openai employees, some of whom were executives and policy leaders in the company, join a growing group expressing strong opposition to the transition of Openai.
Earlier this week, a group of organizations, including nonprofits and working groups like Teamsters California, demanded California Attorney General Rob Bonta to stop Openai to become a lucrative. They claimed that the company “failed to protect its charity” and yes “is actively destroying its charitable mission to advance safe artificial intelligence.”
Encode, a nonprofit organization that co-perceives California SB 1047 SB 1047 security legislation, quoted similar concerns in an amicus summary in December.
Openai has said that his conversion will preserve his non -profit arm and inject him with resources to be spent on “charity initiatives” in sectors such as health care, education and science. In exchange for its controlling shares in the Openai enterprise, non -profit is reported to be about billions of dollars.
“We are preparing to build the best equipped nonprofly the world has ever seen-we are not converting it,” the company wrote in a series of posts on Wednesday.
The shares are high for Openai, which must complete its lucrative conversion by the end of this year or another or risk renouncing some of the capital it has set up in recent months, according to some reports.
