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Strategy & Governance·OpenAI·Apr 2018

★3. OpenAI Charter

The mission document that defined OpenAI's values

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Summary

OpenAI's official charter defining its mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, including the 'assist clause' committing to help safety-conscious projects rather than compete in late-stage AGI development.

Key Concepts

Four pillars: broad benefit, safety-first, frontier leadership, cooperative orientation

The Charter established several foundational principles:

Pledge to stop competing and assist any safety-conscious project that nears AGI first

The most distinctive element was the "assist clause": if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before OpenAI does, OpenAI commits to stop competing with it and start assisting it.

Connections

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1. Introducing OpenAI
Dec 2015
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4. Improving Language Understanding (GPT-1)
Jun 2018