OpenAI is structured as a capped-profit company so that if great centralization of capital occurs into OpenAI, ownership is held by a nonprofit for distribution to the world rather than by shareholders, enabling exotic outcomes like UBI and universal distributions.

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Greg Brockman

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We're a capped profit, so that if there is this great centralization of capital into OpenAI, that actually it's not owned by the shareholders, it ends up being owned by a nonprofit for distribution to the world.

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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on AI and the Future (Full Audio)Reid Hoffman
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:25:17 PM

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