“Training chatbots to engage with people and keep them coming back presented risks,” OpenAI’s former policy researcher Gretchen Krueger told the New York Times, adding that some harm to users “was not only foreseeable, it was foreseen.” Krueger left the company in the spring of 2024.

The concerns center mostly around a clash between OpenAI’s mission to increase daily chatbot users as an official for-profit, and its founding vision of a future where safe AI benefits humanity, one that it promised to follow as a former nonprofit

emphasis mine lol smh.