This past fall, OpenAI, the source of the ChatGPT app that 800 million people now use every week, chose to restructure its organization to prioritize generating revenue for stakeholders over providing ethical and objective information for the world.

Reporter Frank Landymore summarized the decision: “The move completes the company’s metamorphosis: from its origins as a non-profit devoted to developing open source AI technology for the betterment of humankind to the closed-source, profit- seeking juggernaut that it is today, with its staggering half-trillion dollar valuation.” This is huge. One OpenAI researcher sent an internal warning to colleagues that the organization is now censoring information which paints a darker picture of how it’s affecting people. This became such a point of frustration that at least two OpenAI research employees quit the company, according to sources at Wired Magazine.

My point is not to call out this gigantic company on its ethics, as much as it is to illustrate what........

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