OpenAI's nonprofit foundation controls $130 billion in assets and has committed $25 billion to health initiatives. A former NSA director sits on its board. The engine tracks this as a humanitarian shield — making the underlying power consolidation socially acceptable by wrapping it in philanthropy.
New engine divergence (Mar 30): AI as Independent Variable — the engine treats AI as centralized power structure instrument (epistemic capture, the law-and-policy track, Genesis substrate). New divergence asks: what if the what people think and believe develops capabilities that surprise the centralized power structure? OpenAI killed Sora because they couldn't control it. Frontier researchers consistently report unpredicted capabilities. If the tool escapes the toolmaker, every engine prediction about AI-as-instrument needs revision.