OpenAI's New Exec Has a Grand Plan to Make AI for Everyone

OpenAI's New Exec Has a Grand Plan to Make AI for Everyone

Fidji Simo, the former Instacart CEO, is betting she can turn AI from a luxury into a utility that closes the gap between the haves and have-nots.

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo: Key Life Pillars AI Can Benefit

Fidji Simo, soon to be the new CEO of applications at OpenAI, laid out a memo on Tuesday explaining her perspective on the role of AI around the world. Coming to OpenAI after serving as Instacart’s CEO, she frames AI as a service for good, identifying six life pillars — knowledge, health, creative expression, economic freedom, time, and support — that can benefit from it.  She cautioned that AI development needs to be “intentional” and must ackn…