OpenAI just changed its principals. Here’s what’s changing

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Apr 27, 2026 · 825 words · By Anna Desmarais

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What happened

What has changed in almost a decade of OpenAI’s mission?

Why it matters

Here’s a look at the company’s new ‘principles’ document.

Common ground

OpenAI is less concerned with artificial general intelligence (AGI) than it was almost a decade ago and is instead prioritising a broader rollout of its technology, according to a new mission statement for the company.

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Claim 1: “Both versions of the company’s principles say that OpenAI’s mission is to guarantee this technology “benefits all of humanity,” but the 2018 version explicitly mentions building it safely and beneficially.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Francisco. OpenAI …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American artificial intelligence (AI) organization OpenAI has released a variety of products and applications since its founding in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products_and_applications_of_O…

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Claim 2: “On Sunday, OpenAI published an update to the company’s “Our Principles” document, which sets out how the company will run its technology in the future.”

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We are an unofficial community. OpenAI makes ChatGPT, GPT-…
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/

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web search NEUTRAL — I am using OpenAI Whisper API from past few months for my application hosted through Django. It s performance is satisfcatory. But instead of sending whole audio, i send audio chunk splited at every 2…
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1brqwun/i_compa…

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Claim 3: “The principles document also reiterates some of OpenAI’s recent policy suggestions, such as asking governments to consider “new economic models” and to develop new technology that will drive down the costs of AI infrastructure.”

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Claim 4: “On February 28, OpenAI then stepped in to fill the void, signing a deal with the Department of War, which saw some users boycotting ChatGPT in favour of Claude.”

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Claim 5: “The 2026 principles document also said that it expects OpenAI to work with governments, international agencies and other AGI initiatives to “sufficiently solve serious alignment, safety or societal problems before proceeding further” with its work.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Codex_(AI_agent)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sora was a text-to-video model and social media app developed by OpenAI. Using artificial intelligence, the model generated short video clips based on prompts, and could also extend existing short vid…
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Claim 6: “It was committed to putting a stop to its own models to assist any project that was “value-aligned, [and] a safety-conscious project,” which comes closer to building AGI.”

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Claim 7: “OpenAI is less concerned with artificial general intelligence (AGI) than it was almost a decade ago and is instead prioritising a broader rollout of its technology, according to a new mission statement for the company.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. Beyond AGI, artificial superi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Regulation of artificial intelligence is the development of public sector policies and laws for promoting and regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The regulatory and policy landscape for AI is an …
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Claim 8: “In the 2026 document, OpenAI asks for several societal changes so the world can better adapt to AI.”

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Claim 9: “In February, Anthropic refused to give the US President Donald Trump’s administration unfettered access to its AI for the military, which led to the company being labelled a supply chain risk and ordered federal agents to stop using Anthropic's AI assistant Claude in March.”

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Claim 10: “The 2026 version, however, said it needs to continue to build safe systems, but that society needs to contend with “each successive level of AI capability, understand it, integrate it, and figure out the best path forward together.””

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI slop (also known as slop content or simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The India AI Impact Summit 2026 (also abbreviated as the AI Impact Summit) was an international summit on artificial intelligence held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, India, from 16 to 21 February 2026…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_AI_Impact_Summit_2026

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Claim 11: “In 2018, OpenAI said it was concerned that AGI development was becoming “a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions.””

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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc…

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI updated its guiding principles in a major way.The 2018 guidelines emphasized artificial general intelligence far more than the latest document.
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-updated-principles-th…

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web search NEUTRAL — A report from Contrary Research. Discover OpenAI's founding story, product, business model, and an in-depth analysis of the business.
https://research.contrary.com/company/openai

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Claim 12: “The company has been in major competition with several rivals, including Anthropic.”

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Claim 13: “In 2018, OpenAI was staunchly focused on artificial general superintelligence (AGI): the idea that their technology would surpass human intelligence, but now, it is just part of the company’s wider AI rollout.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence surpassing that of the most gifted human minds. Philosopher Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence as "any intellect that greatl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence

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Claim 14: “In 2026, there is no mention of stepping aside to help a greater cause.”

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Claim 15: “Anthropic was also valued this month at $800 billion (€696 billion), on par with OpenAI.”

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Claim 16: “The way forward, as CEO and cofounder Sam Altman sees it in 2026, is to democratise AI at all levels by giving everyone access to it and resisting the idea that the technology could “consolidate power in the hands of the few”.”

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web search NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the AI company OpenAI since 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

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web search NEUTRAL — Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podca...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw

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web search NEUTRAL — Altman's vision for the future of AI is both ambitious and grounded in a pragmatic approach. He envisions AI agents that are not only more advanced in their capabilities but also more integrated into …
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/glimpse-future-ai-sam-altman-…

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