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OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
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Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#22Rubbish article, you only need to go to about page with mission statement see the word “safe” > We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome https://openai.com/about/ I am more concerned about the amount of rubbish making it to HN front page recently
TFA mentions this. Copy on a website is less significant than a mission statement in corporate filings however.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#23This is something I noticed in the xAI All Hands hiring promotion this week as well. None of the 9 teams presented is a safety team - and safety was mentioned 0 times in the presentation. "Immense economic prosperity" got 2 shout-outs though. Personally I'm doubtful that truthmaxxing alone will provide sufficient guidance.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#24Why delete it even if you don’t want to care about safety? Is it so they don’t get sued by investors once they’re public for misrepresenting themselves?
Could be a vice signal. People who know safe AI is less profitable might not want to invest in safe AI.
Elon is probably pitching that angle pretty hard.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#25Nobody should have any illusion about the purpose of most business - make money. The "safety" is a nice to have if it does not diminish the profits of the business. This is the cold hard truth.
If you start to look through the optics of business == money making machine, you can start to think at rational regulations to curb this in order to protect the regular people. The regulations should keep business in check while allowing them to make reasonable profits.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#26Yes. ChatGPT "safely" helped[1] my friend's daughter write a suicide note. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-h...
https://archive.is/fuJCe
(Apologies if this archive link isn't helpful, the unlocked_article_code in the URL still resulted in a paywall on my side...)
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#27Nobody should have any illusion about the purpose of most business - make money. The "safety" is a nice to have if it does not diminish the profits of the business. This is the cold hard truth. If you start to look through the optics of business == money making machine , you can start to think at rational regulations to curb this in order to protect the regular people. The regulations should keep business in check wh…
This is no longer about money, it's about power.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#28"Safe" is the most dangerous word in the tech world; when big tech uses it, it merely implies submission of your rights to them and nothing more. They use the word to get people on board and when the market is captured they get to define it to mean whatever they (or their benefactors) decide.
When idealists (and AI scientists) say "safe", it means something completely different from how tech oligarchs use it. And the intersect between true idealists and tech oligarchs is near zero, almost by definition, because idealists value their ideals over profits.
On the one hand the new mission statement seems more honest. On the other hand I feel bad for the people that were swindled by the promise of safe open AI meaning what they thought it meant.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#29How could this ever have been done safely? Either you are pushing the envelope in order to remain a relevant top player, in which case your models aren't safe. Or you aren't, in which case you aren't relevant.
Re: OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission
#30Took them long enough to ignore the neurotic naysayers who read too many Less Wrong posts