OpenAI employees donate over $215,000 to rival super PAC pushing AI regulation

According to a WIRED report, seven current and one former OpenAI employee have donated more than $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that launched last month with $5 million in initial funding. The group aims to push for stricter regulations on frontier AI labs and serve as a counterweight to Leading the Future, a pro-AI industry super PAC backed with over $100 million from technology leaders including OpenAI president Greg Brockman. The largest donation from an OpenAI employee came from research engineer Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe, who gave $200,000. Guardrails Alliance, cofounded by longtime Democratic political organizer Shaunna Thomas, has a goal to raise $15 million this election cycle. The donations highlight growing tensions inside OpenAI over the company’s efforts to shape AI policy, as some workers use their own money to directly counter Leading the Future. Leading the Future spokesperson Jesse Hunt denied that the super PAC has tried to stifle public debate about AI and noted it has previously advocated for federal regulations on the technology.

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Sources: Wired