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The Midas Project
@TheMidasProj
Watchdog nonprofit that monitors the practices of leading AI companies.
Tracking safety updates @SafetyChanges
Writing at modelrepublic.substack.com
Joined October 2023
🚨 Breaking: A group of 100+ Nobel laureates, professors, whistleblowers, public figures, artists, and nonprofit organizations just released a letter asking OpenAI to tell the truth about its restructuring. Here’s what they had to say: 🧵
- "Oh, you can trust the AI industry to self-regulate, and they'll handle things responsibly! This won't be like social media in the 2010s." cognitionaisafety.com
- @cognition_labs is an AI startup developing Devin, an autonomous coding agent. What’s their plan to conduct risk assessments, protect user privacy, and prevent misuse? They won't say. That's why we're launching a public awareness campaign to hold them accountable.
- OpenAI once said its nonprofit would be entitled to "the vast majority" and "all but a fraction" of the wealth it generates. Now, in their new restructuring, they are saying it will be entitled to only 20%. (~$100b out of a $500b valuation). From "Nearly all" to "one fifth" 🙄
- Replying to @TheMidasProjThe first two sentences cut straight to the chase: “OpenAI is currently sitting on both sides of the table in a closed boardroom, making a deal on humanity’s behalf without allowing us to see the contract, know the terms, or sign off on the decision.” 👀
- 🚨 BREAKING: We just filed an IRS complaint against OpenAI for potential tax law violations that could threaten its nonprofit status. Thread below 🧵
- Replying to @samaDo you remember when you said "We're a nonprofit because we don’t want to ever be making decisions that benefit shareholders. The only people we want to be accountable to is humanity as a whole." What happened? safetyabandoned.org
- For months, we've been calling upon the team at @cognition_labs to make an industry-standard risk evaluation plan. They've consistently refused. Now, one day after their product launch, a live streamer revealed a massive security vulnerability in front of an audience of 6,000.🧵
- Today, @TheMidasProj and @Tech_Oversight released The OpenAI Files, a comprehensive investigation into safety issues, integrity concerns, and employee testimonies at @OpenAI as they consider restructuring to a for-profit. Some highlights from the report: (1/16)
- The Midas Project commends Attorneys General Kathy Jennings and Rob Bonta for their diligent work over the past year. That said, significant concerns remain about whether this restructuring adequately protects the @OpenAI mission, and the public.
- Replying to @TheMidasProjFor context: OpenAI was famously founded as a nonprofit organization, believing that AGI technology was too valuable, and too dangerous, for the private market. However, investor pressure has changed things.
- 🔎 Which tech companies are falling behind on responsible AI development? Hint: There's one particular AI coding startup that won't answer any of our questions about risk assessment and safety guardrails 👀 Read our findings here: themidasproject.com/red-line-asses…
- Replying to @cognition and @cognition_labsDevin is a true junior software engineer leaking keys and causing major security issues on his first day at work
