As best I can tell, the idea of a “capped-profit” organization was introduced by OpenAI in 2019, but I have not seen any discussion of it in the context of broader policy options. I do not claim to have any especially novel ideas here, but I apologize if I’ve missed someone else’s work on this.
There has been some prior work you might enjoy reading, labeled under ‘Windfall Clause’. See the collection of posts here, the original proposal here, and my criticism here.
There has been some prior work you might enjoy reading, labeled under ‘Windfall Clause’. See the collection of posts here, the original proposal here, and my criticism here.
Thanks! I’d heard of the windfall clause idea, but somehow not made the connection to this. I’ll edit the post to make note of it.