埃隆·马斯克表示,他离开OpenAI时拒绝了所有股份,因为他认为非营利组织不应成为个人致富的工具。他创立OpenAI的初衷源于与拉里·佩奇的对话,担忧后者对AI危险性的重视不足,希望建立一个开源非营利组织来制衡谷歌。马斯克强调自己提供了全部初始资金、招募了核心团队并传授了知识,甚至促成了与微软的合作,但从未寻求任何财务回报。他拒绝股份的根本原因在于,认为非营利组织的本质与股权激励相悖。
Elon Musk turned down all shares when he left OpenAI because he believed nonprofits are not meant for self-enrichment.
"The reason I founded OpenAI was because I was concerned, based on my conversations with Larry Page, that he was not sufficiently concerned about the dangers of AI. At my birthday party, he, in front of a large group of people, called me a speciesist, for favoring humanity over computers. So after that, I was like, We got to have some counterbalance to Google, because Larry doesn't seem to care if humans make it or not.
So I thought, what's the opposite of Google? It would be an open source nonprofit, and that's where the word open, in OpenAI comes from. It means open source.