The current state of the artificial intelligence industry means that it needs money. What it needed, what OpenAI specifically needed (since they need the most funding), was another reason for folks to throw money at artificial intelligence. It’s probably not some massive conspiracy to maintain funding for artificial intelligence. In that case, the agent slipped out from under the noses of the company with the greatest concentration of artificial intelligence talent in the Western world. You don’t really need to be wearing a tinfoil helmet to doubt the convenient-seeming events falling into place around OpenAI right now.