About OpenAI – Mission, Structure, and Vision for AGI

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Official OpenAI about page; useful for understanding the organization's stated mission and governance structure, but content is high-level and primarily serves as an entry point to more substantive linked documents like the AGI plan and charter.

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OpenAI's official about page describes the company's mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It outlines their dual organizational structure as a nonprofit foundation governing a for-profit public benefit corporation, and links to key documents like their AGI plan and charter.

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•Mission: ensure AGI—AI systems generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity
•Considers mission fulfilled even if their work helps others achieve safe AGI, not necessarily OpenAI itself
•Organizational structure: nonprofit OpenAI Foundation governs the for-profit OpenAI Group (public benefit corporation)
•Links to foundational documents: Planning for AGI and Beyond, and the OpenAI Charter
•Highlights active safety research including monitoring internal agents for misalignment and instruction hierarchy work

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OpenAI	Headquarters	San Francisco, CA	—
Sam Altman	Employed By	1LcLlMGLbw	Dec 2015
Sam Altman	Role / Title	CEO	Mar 2019

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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Our vision for the future of AGI

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.

Our plan for AGIOur Charter

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