One datapoint: they could have gone with a public benefit corporation, but chose not to. And none of the staff, particularly key figures like Szegedy, are, AFAIK, at all interested in safety. (Szegedy in particular has been dismissive of there being anything but the most minor near-term AI-bias-style issues on Twitter, IIRC.)
EDIT: also relevant: Musk was apparently recruiting the first dozen for x.AI by promising the researchers “$200 million” of equity each, under the reasoning that x.AI is (somehow) already worth “$20,000 million” and thus 1% equity each is worth that much.
One datapoint: they could have gone with a public benefit corporation, but chose not to. And none of the staff, particularly key figures like Szegedy, are, AFAIK, at all interested in safety. (Szegedy in particular has been dismissive of there being anything but the most minor near-term AI-bias-style issues on Twitter, IIRC.)
EDIT: also relevant: Musk was apparently recruiting the first dozen for x.AI by promising the researchers “$200 million” of equity each, under the reasoning that x.AI is (somehow) already worth “$20,000 million” and thus 1% equity each is worth that much.