On 2018-04-09, OpenAI said[1]:
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) [...] benefits all of humanity.
In contrast, in 2023, OpenAI said[2]:
[...] OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity.
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This archived snapshot is from 2023-05-17, but the document didn’t get much attention until November that year.
Update: We’re back to “ensure”. On 2025-05-05, Sam Altman said (archived):
[OpenAI’s] mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.
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On 2018-04-09, OpenAI said[1]:
In contrast, in 2023, OpenAI said[2]:
Archived
This archived snapshot is from 2023-05-17, but the document didn’t get much attention until November that year.
Update: We’re back to “ensure”. On 2025-05-05, Sam Altman said (archived):