[Futurebot]

"The biggest loss of all, though, is a necessary one: the myth that anything but a for-profit corporation is the right way to organize a company."

Alternatively, we could have these companies turned into research organizations run by the government and funded by taxes they way most research (e.g. pharmaceuticals) should be. There's more than one way to get good research done, and having it public removes many strange incentives and conflicts of interest.

[xxpor]

Compare OpenAI's funding to the national labs.

Sandia and Los Alamos both receive about $4.5 billion per fiscal year. OpenAI is likely spending an order of magnitude more than that.

[asadotzler]

Really? OAI spending 45 billion dollars a year with fewer than 1,000 employees? Seems unlikely.