This seems contrary to their stated goal to prioritize AI safety.
It is against the law to prioritize AI safety if you run a public company. You must prioritize profits for your shareholders.
"We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."
-google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
then came the dot com bubble.
Do you think they currently exist to prioritize AI safety? That shit won’t pay the bills, will it? Then they don’t exist. Goals are nice, OKRs yay, but at the end of the day, we all know the dollar drives everything.
Unless you're a benefit corp, this is true for private companies as well. Quick q - which of the AI companies are benefit corps?