OpenAI owes us $180 billion

开眼AI欠我们一千八百亿美元

Today, Explained

2026-03-26

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OpenAI's founders promised its tech would benefit humanity. Now that it has split into a giant charity and a for-profit company, that mission has gotten complicated. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Andrea López-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatsciore, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. This episode was produced in partnership with Vox's Future Perfect. Disclosure: Vox Media is one of several publishers that have signed partnership agreements with OpenAI. Our reporting remains editorially independent. Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Chat GPT.

  • You either love it or you hate it, am I right?

  • You love it because it tells you why your bat keeps doing that.

  • You hate it because it uses a boatload of fresh water to do so.

  • Or maybe you hate it because after OpenAI trained chat on centuries of humanity's creative labor,

  • its leader, Sam Altman, said he wants to sell it right back to us.

  • We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it.

  • From us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for.

  • Cool.

  • But wait, ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI, has the potential to do tons of good, too?

  • Turns out they've got $180 billion of charitable monies to give away to humanity, to help our cause.

  • That's more than double what the Gates Foundation has to play with.

  • OpenAI owes us $180 billion.

  • But are we going to get it on Today Explained from Vox?

  • Here we go.

  • Once upon a dismal day, Bob's ice cream van looked gloomy and gray.

  • Although he had big ambitions, his socials lacked creative vision.

  • That bad?

  • Maybe vamp it up a tad?

  • I have an idea.