“Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)” by 80000_Hours

We just published an interview: Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui). Listen on Spotify, watch on Youtube, or click through for other audio options, the transcript, and related links. Episode summary …if the judge thinks that the attorney general is not acting for some political reason, and they really should be, she could appoint a ‘special interest party’…. That's the court saying, “I’m not seeing the public's interest sufficiently protected here.” — Rose Chan Loui When OpenAI announced plans to convert from nonprofit to for-profit control last October, it likely didn’t anticipate the legal labyrinth it now faces. A recent court order in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company suggests OpenAI's restructuring faces serious legal threats, which will complicate its efforts to raise tens of billions in investment. As nonprofit legal expert Rose Chan Loui explains, the court order set [...] --- First published: March 7th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bFpdaqDekC7ZEPmpA/emergency-pod-judge-plants-a-legal-time-bomb-under-openai --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.