Big news for the pursuit of artificial general intelligence — or AI that’s of human-level intelligence across the board. OpenAI, which describes its mission as “ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity,” finalized its long-in-the-works corporate restructuring plan yesterday. It might entirely change how we approach risks from AI, especially biological ones.

A quick refresher first: OpenAI was originally founded as a nonprofit in 2015, but gained a for-profit arm four years later. The nonprofit will now be named the OpenAI Foundation, and the for-profit subsidiary is now a public benefit corporation, called the OpenAI Group. (PBCs have legal requirements to balance mission and profit, unlike other structures.) The foundation will still control the OpenAI Group and have a 26 percent stake

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