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>>staran+(OP)
If OpenAI remains a 501(c)(3) charity, then any employee of Microsoft on the board will have a fiduciary duty to advance the mission of the charity, rather than the business needs of Microsoft. There are obvious conflicts of interest here. I don't expect the IRS to be a fan of this arrangement.

>>garris+EJ
OpenAI's charter is dead. I expect future boards to amend it.

>>zeroha+wc2
People keep saying this but is there any evidence that any of this was related to the charter?

>>ric2b+pN2
The only evidence I have is that the board members that were removed had less business connections than the ones that replaced them.

The point of the board is to ensure the charter is being followed, when the biggest concern is "is our commercialization getting in the way of our charter" what else does it mean to replace "academics" with "businesspeople"?