CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic that are PBCs may be focusing on working for benefit of humanity as they say
CEOs of top US AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic that are PBCs may be focusing on working for benefit of humanity as they say. USA PBCs seem to allow such humanitarian mission orientation. When updating my recent India AI Impact Summit post on 21 Feb 2026 with update covering Brazil and India co-operating on AI for Global South, I was unaware that some leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic operate under Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) structures — a relatively recent legal innovation (2010) in the US. As per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation , "A company chooses to become a benefit corporation in order to operate as a traditional for-profit business while simultaneously addressing social, economic, and/or environmental needs." The CEOs of these PBC AI companies could very well be focused on working for benefit of all humanity. I cannot say that they have to focus on shareholder profit. Whether PBC governance meaningfully enforces public-ben...