DeepMind was trying to change its governance structure so that a profit-motivated monopoly in the form of Google wouldn’t have free rein to monetize AGI. Instead, a council of expert advisors would keep things in check. Altman and Musk had established OpenAI as a nonprofit and promised to share its research and even its patents with other organizations if it looked like they were getting closer to the threshold of superintelligent machines. That way it would prioritize humanity.
