OpenAI's commercial release of API raises serious questions about AI misuse

Originally, the artificial intelligence (AI) development and research organization, OpenAI, was founded as a nonprofit with the ambitious mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence would benefit all humanity. Since then, much has happened, starting with original founder Elon Musk leaving OpenAI's board in 2018. In July of 2019, the narrative changed yet again after the company received a $1 billion investment from Microsoft. The company exists today as a "capped-profit" organization. Most notably during this time, the company developed a text-generating language system it chose to not release "due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology," then subsequently released said system.