I appreciate the idea of being a "not-greedy typical company," but there's a reason you e.g. separate university type research or non-profits and private companies.
Trying to make up something in the middle is the exact sort of naivete you can ALWAYS expect from Silicon Valley.
I'd say yes, Sutsksever is... naive? though very smart. Or just utopian. Seems he couldn't get the scale he needed/wanted out of a university (or Google) research lab. But the former at least would have bounded things better in the way he would have preferred, from an ethics POV.
Jumping into bed with Musk and Altman and hoping for ethical non-profit "betterment of humanity" behaviour is laughable. Getting access to capital was obviously tempting, but ...
As for Altman. No, he's not naive. Amoral, and likely proud of it. JFC ... Worldcoin... I can't even...
I don't want either of these people in charge of the future, frankly.
It does point to the general lack of funding for R&D of this type of thing. Or it's still too early to be doing this kind of thing at scale. I dunno.
Bleak.
Now it's laughable, but OpenAI was founded in 2015. I don't know about Altman, but Musk was very respected at the time. He didn't start going off the deep end until 2017. "I'm motivated by... a desire to think about the future and not be sad," was something he said during a TED interview in 2017, and people mostly believed him.