Suleyman: Inflection AI is structured as a public benefit corporation
Mustafa Suleyman · AI + You: 5 ways to ethically build — and use — AI | Masters of Scale · Oct 31, 2023 · at 18:44
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection AI and Google DeepMind, discusses corporate governance and responsibility in AI development.
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“We founded the company as a public benefit corporation, and that's a new type of company which tries to be a hybrid for-profit and non-profit mission whereby the legal constitution of the company requires us to take into account the consequences of our actions for the rest of the world, both the environment, the climate, all the people who may be Affected by our technologies in years to come who aren't necessarily just our customers.”
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