Humans have a unique window of time to debate how AI should be implemented.

One organization taking the helm on this is OpenAI, created in 2015 by a group of Silicon Valley investors. The nonprofit’s goal is to ensure that “artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity,” according to its mission statement. “We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.