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OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges
A Sam Altman–funded nonprofit studying the effects of giving monthly checks of up to 1,000 to lower-income households in the US espouses transparency in its operations. "We aim to share data, findings, and insights widely," OpenResearch says on its website, which describes its work as a "public good." But like at least two other Altman-linked organizations--OpenAI and UBI Charitable--OpenResearch has decided to withhold information about its finances and governance. In several years of filings to US tax authorities since their founding, each of the organizations has answered a question about their voluntary disclosure of financial statements, governing documents, and conflict-of-interest policies by stating that the public can review them upon request. It remains unclear whether anyone took them up on the offer in those years.