OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss
A group of rank-and-file OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a super PAC pushing for stricter regulations on frontier AI labs. Guardrails Alliance, which launched last month with $5 million in total initial funding, bills itself as a populist effort supported by tech workers, labor unions, and other groups. It’s aiming to be a counterweight to Leading the Future, a pro-AI industry super PAC bankrolled with more than $100 million from technology industry leaders, including OpenAI president and cofounder Greg Brockman.
Seven current OpenAI employees have donated to Guardrails Alliance, as well as one former employee, WIRED has learned. The super PAC exclusively shared some of its donors with WIRED before its first quarterly filing with the Federal Election Commission is made public on July 15. Two OpenAI employees are expected to appear in that filing, while five more are scheduled to be named in Guardrails Alliance’s...
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