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When people say too big to fail, normally they're referring to companies which if they fail they would bring down other important parts of society's infrastructure (think biggest banks), and so someone (the gov) will last minute change the rules around to ensure they don't fail.

The openai fails, absolutely nothing happens other than its shareholder losing their paper money. So no, they're not too big to fail.

>>bdjsiq+(OP)
If they fail, other entities with little to no American oversight/control potentially become the leading edge in artificial intelligence.

>>svnt+79
I find your lack of faith in America disturbing.

>>bdjsiq+(OP)
OpenAI doesnt even have shareholders, so the company would just bankrupt and few hundred people would be out of jobs.

Probably Microsoft would hire them to some AI shop, because Microsoft is the one deploying the stuff. But Microsoft has rights to use it and the code, so for them OpenAI is only a research partner.

Maybe research would get slower.