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Stella Biderman argues OpenAI's ability to transfer assets to its for-profit division shows internal governance cannot enforce accountability

She estimates the shifted assets are worth $1 trillion.

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Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦@BlackHC#478inTech

Good point! Responsible business practices usually require regulations for profit maximizing companies

I guess the question is whether having binding but otherwise untested legal obligations as part of the setup is sufficient. Ie are Anthropic and OpenAI's setup sufficient to self-regulate?

And these governance forms are relatively fixed and not adaptive, so will they fail over time? It requires continued goodwill to adapt them

Stella Biderman@BlancheMinerva

@BlackHC @mtavitschlegel I think that they are relatively strong on such things, but that’s not what I’m contesting. I’m contesting that promoting a commercial monopoly is an effective way to bring about responsible business practices. What are examples of this going well, historically?

6:01 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 77 Views

/Tech10h ago

Stella Biderman argues OpenAI's ability to transfer assets to its for-profit division shows internal governance cannot enforce accountability

She estimates the shifted assets are worth $1 trillion.

2100131

#371

Original post

Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦@BlackHC#478inTech

Good point! Responsible business practices usually require regulations for profit maximizing companies

I guess the question is whether having binding but otherwise untested legal obligations as part of the setup is sufficient. Ie are Anthropic and OpenAI's setup sufficient to self-regulate?

And these governance forms are relatively fixed and not adaptive, so will they fail over time? It requires continued goodwill to adapt them

Stella Biderman@BlancheMinerva

6:01 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 77 Views

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Stella Biderman@BlancheMinerva

@BlackHC @mtavitschlegel I don’t agree that OpenAI and Anthropic have binding legal obligations. OpenAI was able to transfer a trillion dollars that was nominally owned and controlled by the non-profit to a for-profit. By my reckoning that’s the single biggest theft of public resources in history.

Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦@BlackHC

Good point! Responsible business practices usually require regulations for profit maximizing companies

I guess the question is whether having binding but otherwise untested legal obligations as part of the setup is sufficient. Ie are Anthropic and OpenAI's setup sufficient to self-regulate?

And these governance forms are relatively fixed and not adaptive, so will they fail over time? It requires continued goodwill to adapt them

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