OpenAI Nonprofit Board

Extracted Attributes

• Name

  OpenAI Nonprofit Board

• Purpose

  Develop safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) for humanity

• Structure

  Non-profit OpenAI, Inc. is the sole controlling shareholder of OpenAI Global, LLC; majority of board members barred from financial stakes in OpenAI Global, LLC

• Headquarters

  San Francisco, California, United States

• Current Chair

  Bret Taylor

• Registered In

  Delaware, United States

• Fiduciary Duty

  To its mission of safe AGI that is broadly beneficial; principal beneficiary is humanity, not OpenAI investors

• Governing Body For

  All OpenAI activities, including for-profit subsidiaries OpenAI Holdings, LLC and OpenAI Global, LLC

• Current Board Member

  Larry Summers

Timeline

• OpenAI, Inc., the non-profit parent organization, was founded with the mission to develop safe and beneficial AGI. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015-12

• OpenAI released ChatGPT, which significantly boosted widespread interest in generative AI. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-11

• The OpenAI Nonprofit Board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of confidence and a fundamental culture clash regarding the pace and methods for pursuing safe AGI. (Source: Wikipedia, Related Documents)

  2023-11

• Five days after his removal, Sam Altman was reinstated as CEO by the OpenAI Nonprofit Board following a reconstruction of the board. (Source: Wikipedia, Related Documents)

  2023-11

• Approximately half of OpenAI's AI safety researchers departed the organization, citing industry-wide issues. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-2024

• OpenAI announced new members to its Board of Directors: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo, with Sam Altman also rejoining the board. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-03-08

• OpenAI convened an independent Nonprofit Commission to gather feedback on how its philanthropy can address long-term systemic issues. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-04

OpenAI

OpenAI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom, OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI. The organization has a complex corporate structure. As of April 2025, it is led by the non-profit OpenAI, Inc., founded in 2015 and registered in Delaware, which has multiple for-profit subsidiaries including OpenAI Holdings, LLC and OpenAI Global, LLC. Microsoft invested over $13 billion into OpenAI, and provides Azure cloud computing resources. In October 2025, OpenAI conducted a $6.6 billion share sale that valued the company at $500 billion. In 2023 and 2024, OpenAI faced multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement against authors and media companies whose work was used to train some of OpenAI's products. In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of confidence in him, but reinstated him five days later following a reconstruction of the board. Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI safety researchers left OpenAI, citing the company's prominent role in an industry-wide problem.

Web Search Results

• Our structure | OpenAI

  Our board OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, currently comprised of Independent Directors Bret Taylor (Chair), Adam D’Angelo, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Zico Kolter, Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, Adebayo Ogunlesi, Nicole Seligman, and Larry Summers, as well as our CEO Sam Altman. Our Research Research Index Research Overview Research Residency Latest Advancements GPT-5 OpenAI o3 OpenAI o4-mini GPT-4o GPT-4o mini Sora [...] The OpenAI Nonprofit would remain intact, with its board continuing as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities. A new for-profit subsidiary would be formed, capable of issuing equity to raise capital and hire world class talent, but still at the direction of the Nonprofit. Employees working on for-profit initiatives were transitioned over to the new subsidiary. [...] Second, because the board is still the board of a Nonprofit, each director must perform their fiduciary duties in furtherance of its mission—safe AGI that is broadly beneficial. While the for-profit subsidiary is permitted to make and distribute profit, it is subject to this mission. The Nonprofit’s principal beneficiary is humanity, not OpenAI investors.

• How committed to AGI safety are the current OpenAI nonprofit board ...

  > OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, currently comprised of Independent Directors Bret Taylor (Chair), Sam Altman, Adam D’Angelo, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo, Larry Summers and Zico Kolter. Who are these people and to what extent are they committed and qualified to ensure the development of safe, beneficial AGI? 14 == 0 0 Reactions 0 0 New Answer New Comment Add answer Comments 1 Sorted by [...] Image 2: Effective Altruism Forum Logo EA Forum Login Sign up Hide table of contents ( How committed to AGI safety are the current OpenAI nonprofit board members? by Eevee🔹 Dec 2 2024 1 min readNo answers1 14 == AI safetyNonprofit governanceAI governanceOpenAIFrontpage How committed to AGI safety are the current OpenAI nonprofit board members? 1 comment According to this page, the OpenAI board is as follows: [...] With the exodus of many of the people who were concerned about mitigating risks of AI going badly wrong, the remaining culture there will likely be more focused on upsides, on moving fast, on beating competitors, etc. There will likely be fewer alarming disagreements among high-ranking members of the organization (because the ones who had alarming disagreements already left). The new narrative on safety will likely be something like, "We have to address the fact that there was this ideological

• OpenAI announces new members to board of directors

  We’re announcing three new members to our Board of Directors as a first step towards our commitment to expansion: Dr.Sue Desmond-Hellmann, _former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation_, Nicole Seligman, _former EVP and General Counsel at Sony Corporation_ and Fidji Simo, _CEO and Chair of Instacart._ Additionally, Sam Altman, CEO, will rejoin the OpenAI Board of Directors. [...] Bret Taylor, Chair of the OpenAI board, stated, “I am excited to welcome Sue, Nicole, and Fidji to the OpenAI Board of Directors. Their experience and leadership will enable the Board to oversee OpenAI’s growth, and to ensure that we pursue OpenAI’s mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” [...] About Us Our Charter Careers Brand Guidelines News Log in OpenAI March 8, 2024 Company OpenAI announces new members to board of directors Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo join; Sam Altman rejoins board Loading… Share

• OpenAI - Wikipedia

  The nonprofit, OpenAI, Inc., is the sole controlling shareholder of OpenAI Global, LLC, which, despite being a for-profit company, retains a formal fiduciary responsibility to OpenAI, Inc.'s nonprofit charter. A majority of OpenAI, Inc.'s board is barred from having financial stakes in OpenAI Global, LLC.( In addition, minority members with a stake in OpenAI Global, LLC are barred from certain votes due to conflict of interest.( Some researchers have argued that OpenAI Global, LLC's switch to [...] Bret Taylor (chairman), former chairman of Twitter's board of directors and co-CEO of Salesforce Sam Altman Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard University Adam D'Angelo, co-founder and CEO of Quora Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Nicole Seligman, attorney and former executive vice president of the Sony Corporation Paul Nakasone, former Director of the National Security Agency (2018–2024)( [...] In December 2015, OpenAI was founded as a not for profit organization by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk as the co-chairs.( A total of $1 billion in capital was pledged by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Infosys.( The actual collected total amount

• Statement from the OpenAI Board of Directors on the Nonprofit ...

  The Board of Directors thanks the members of the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission for their extensive work and engagement. The Commission was convened⁠ by OpenAI in April to support “an engagement process to gather learnings and feedback from a wide range of stakeholders on how OpenAI’s philanthropy can address long-term systemic issues” and provide recommendations. The attached report⁠(opens in a new window) reflects the Commission’s independent findings. [...] As we carry this mission forward, we remain committed to listening, learning, and building in partnership with those on the front lines of change, as part of the Board’s commitment to a nonprofit that is well-resourced, mission-led, and responsive to the needs of the communities it aims to serve. Keep reading View all Image 2: how-people-are-using-chatgpt > cover image How people are using ChatGPT Research Sep 15, 2025 Image 3: us-caisi-uk-aisi-ai-safety > cover image [...] We appreciate the expertise that informed the Commission’s report, and are grateful to the community leaders and frontline practitioners who generously shared their perspectives throughout the process. Their contributions provide valuable input into how OpenAI’s nonprofit can best fulfill its mission of ensuring Artificial General Intelligence benefits all of humanity.