How Should AI Systems Behave, and Who Should Decide?

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. We therefore think a lot about the behavior of AI systems we build in the run-up to AGI, and the way in which that behavior is determined. Since our launch of ChatGPT, users have shared outputs that they consider politically biased, offensive, or otherwise objectionable. In many cases, we think that the concerns raised have been valid and have uncovered real limitations of our systems which we want to address. We’ve also seen a few misconceptions about how our systems and policies work together to shape the outputs you get from ChatGPT. Below, we summarize: How ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped; How we plan to improve ChatGPT’s default behavior; Our intent to allow more system customization; and Our efforts to get more public input on our decision-making.