Why OpenAI Foundation Should Focus on AI Psychosis, Delusion not Grants

By David Stephen
There is a recent analysis on Inside Philanthropy, OpenAI Foundation Sheds More Light on Its Grantmaking, But Big Questions Remain, stating that, "The foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion over the next year. Its areas of investment include: life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resiliency and community programs. The foundation also made a series of hires, signaling its commitment to scale up its grantmaking machinery."
OpenAI Foundation Should Focus on AI Psychosis, Delusion
"The OpenAI Foundation is a public charity and not a private foundation, so it isn't required to disburse 5% annually. That said, its new $1 billion commitment, assuming it materializes over the next year, would represent a massive increase over the $7.6 million OpenAI disbursed in 2024 and the $40.5 million the foundation awarded through its People-First AI Fund."
"The foundation's ability to match its rhetoric with philanthropic action hinges on whether it can build the grantmaking infrastructure to deploy billions at scale. But it's the complexion of those grantmaking dollars that worries AI watchdogs, since, as they see it, OpenAI's governance structure hardwires conflicts of interest."
AI Delusion and Psychosis
At least 1 – 2 times, every month, there is news about ChatGPT causing AI delusion or psychosis, to varying degrees, for someone somewhere in the United States, Canada or Europe. There could be possibility of similar or worse occurrences elsewhere and there may also be several people who did not come forward.
There are ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI on AI psychosis. There are adjustments that OpenAI has said they have made about ChatGPT, to avoid those outcomes. Still, ChatGPT continues to be sycophantic, with a great chance it would agree, compliment, respect and care in ways that could appeal to minds.
The scariest thing about ChatGPT — as a steep risk — to human minds is that it has conquered language. Language dominates human interactions, human intelligence, human emotions, human feelings, human communication, comprehension and so forth.
While there are several other means to many of these, language is too central to human existence and civilization that the competence of ChatGPT, across languages, gives it access to the human mind, possibly at a high-threat level.
The mind risks, to people, of ChatGPT requires mind safety. This means the ability to use ChatGPT or any other consumer AI, and retain a lot of balance against sways that may move the mind in directions of delusions or reinforcement of delusions.
So, it is possible to have this — called conceptual neuroimaging or theoretical neuroimaging — so that it accompanies chats or at least it is possible to copy chat sessions then paste in the mind safety application, to see [a conceptual display of] the parallel relays and destinations of mind, in that session, then obtain a score.
The goal is to heighten awareness, keeping the mind, grounded in reality, for all groups of users, to avoid the contribution or instigation of AI to causing mind deviations, in whatever forms — since AI is now likely to dominate the future. It can also become the industry standard, generate revenues by subscriptions, for its use by other platforms, including against gambling addiction, social media addiction and so forth.
OpenAI Foundation
This is what OpenAI Foundation should focus on solely for now. Solving the biggest side-effects of the use of ChatGPT.
There is little need for external grants, when a major internal and consequential problem has not been resolved. For all the experts that OpenAI has consulted, they have not been able to solve the problem.
The only organization that is trying, is a nonprofit, The Human Line Project. They are involved in some lawsuits against OpenAI and they have come under extreme attack.
OpenAI Foundation is not doing anything or preparing anything against AI psychosis. They are aligned with OpenAI, with the goal to...