Really, it’s almost unfair to hold a tech company to its mission statement. From Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” to WeWork’s “Elevate the World’s Consciousness,” mission statements are usually written in a company’s adolescence, at that awkward moment when their dreams stretch to the horizon, the venture capitalists are all smiles, and no one has heard of the term “fiduciary responsibility.” It’s like judging someone based on the sentiments expressed in the back of their high school yearbook.

But OpenAI, you are pushing it.

Navigate to the company’s About page, and you’ll still read these words, which first appeared in its 2018 charter, three years after its founding: “Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence — AI systems that are generally smarter than humans — benefits al

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