About OpenAI – Mission, Structure, and Vision for AGI

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Official OpenAI about page; useful for understanding the organization's stated mission and governance structure, but content is high-level and primarily serves as an entry point to more substantive linked documents like the AGI plan and charter.

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Summary

OpenAI's official about page describes the company's mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It outlines their dual organizational structure as a nonprofit foundation governing a for-profit public benefit corporation, and links to key documents like their AGI plan and charter.

Key Points

•Mission: ensure AGI—AI systems generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity
•Considers mission fulfilled even if their work helps others achieve safe AGI, not necessarily OpenAI itself
•Organizational structure: nonprofit OpenAI Foundation governs the for-profit OpenAI Group (public benefit corporation)
•Links to foundational documents: Planning for AGI and Beyond, and the OpenAI Charter
•Highlights active safety research including monitoring internal agents for misalignment and instruction hierarchy work

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Sam Altman	Role / Title	CEO	Mar 2019

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About \| OpenAI

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# About

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

### Our vision for the future of AGI

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.

[Our plan for AGI](https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/) [Our Charter](https://openai.com/charter/)

![An impressionist painting depicting a colorful cityscape with expressive brushstrokes in a palette of blues, greens, yellows, and hints of pink under a light sky.](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/e632747f-9587-47a4-60779b6e0c90/cf75112eedea676e9deed512d191d1ac/planning-for-agi-and-beyond.jpg?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

Illustration: Justin Jay Wang × DALL·E

### We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

![OpenAI Offices](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/7fnM7WwfGlji0mE0t8DefO/cc161016b8d84fd6d789b06c92416544/stangel-openAI-offices-2022-1714.webp?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

### Careers at OpenAI

Developing safe and beneficial AI requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.

[View all careers](https://openai.com/careers/search/)

![stangel-2022-1534](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/2ROfAZ7SlUiikj2Hp98LS0/7e71fd438017ce9cebe46fdce580bb04/stangel-2022-1534.webp?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

#### Learn more about what we do

- Research
- Products

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![OAI Monitoring internal deployments for loss of control risks Art Card 1x1](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/5GCZHArpg3FLRTissb13aX/50b2716c198dbbc4cf241b05faeee97c/OAI_Monitoring_internal_deployments_for_loss_of_control_risks_Art_Card_1x1.png?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

[How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment\\
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Safety](https://openai.com/index/how-we-monitor-internal-coding-agents-misalignment/)

![Safety research the challenge > Cover Image](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/1dWPvCSG0V25TAlDws6dGU/214b389f0862c168692cdf8d467a1b53/art_card__1_.png?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

[Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs\\
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Research](https://openai.com/index/instruction-hierarchy-challenge/)

![5.4 Thinking Art Card](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/5HSBM48XFBkni6rNv5CAbR/46fe1d133c1440563245262a5fa59c79/5.4_Thinking_Art_Card.png?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

[Introducing GPT-5.4\\
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Product](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/)

![5.4 Thinking System Card 1x1](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/BzzFpQcpAxGu8afdKFsNK/2e625979edca58db183c8f0d64477da7/5.4_Thinking_System_Card_1x1.png?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

[GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card\\
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Publication](https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-4-thinking-system-card/)

- [Read more](https://openai.com/news/company-announcements/)

### Our structure

OpenAI consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and the for-profit OpenAI Group

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