Great learning opportunity for those that have not taken time to learn and understand non-profit structures in the USA.
this is clearly an opportunity for the uninformed to study the US non-profit system, unique in the world. For example, I recall a delegation from Japan touring the HQ of a non-profit educational group in San Francisco. Like the p-poster here, they apparently had no clue why or how capable people could come together and form stable work culture aside from "hierarchical, profit motive in USD$" (.. and people did actual work, unlike many management level stock manipulators).
I'm from southeast Europe and I graduated from IB high school programme[0], it is an international Swiss based educational programme that prepares you to study abroad and it is a non-profit. As a non-profit they are efficient af at what they do but in the world of technological innovations, incentives are so much higher and so much more impactful when an organization is for-profit.
Mark Surman writes: As I wrote in Fast Company earlier this week, we risk missing the real lesson from the OpenAI governance debacle. ...
"In the aftermath of the OpenAI governance battle, the narrative has been dominated by the idea that “the capitalists won.” While this conclusion is catchy, it misses the point.
The real (and bigger) story is: The founders of OpenAI set out to create a nonprofit public institution to ensure that AI’s evolution aligns with the interests of humanity at large. Last month, it became clear that they failed.
What is also clear: Public institutions that prioritize the public good over short-term profits are desperately needed for the AI era."
