{"id":992370,"date":"2026-02-16T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992370"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:24:51","slug":"openai-has-deleted-the-word-safely-from-its-mission-and-its-new-structure-is-a-test-for-whether-ai-serves-society-or-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safely-from-its-mission-and-its-new-structure-is-a-test-for-whether-ai-serves-society-or-shareholders\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI has deleted the word \u2018safely&#8217; from its mission \u2013 and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts, Feb 15 (The Conversation) OpenAI, the maker of the most popular AI chatbot, used to say it aimed to build artificial intelligence that &#8220;safely benefits humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return,&#8221; according to its 2023 mission statement. But the ChatGPT maker seems to no longer have the same emphasis on doing so &#8220;safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While reviewing its latest IRS disclosure form, which was released in November 2025 and covers 2024, I noticed OpenAI had removed &#8220;safely&#8221; from its mission statement, among other changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts, Feb 15 (The Conversation) OpenAI, the maker of the most popular AI chatbot, used to say it aimed to build artificial intelligence that &#8220;safely benefits humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return,&#8221; according to its 2023 mission statement. But the ChatGPT maker seems to no longer have the same emphasis on doing so &#8220;safely.&#8221; While reviewing its latest IRS disclosure form, which was released in November 2025 and covers 2024, I noticed OpenAI had removed &#8220;safely&#8221; from its mission statement, among other changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}