Exclusive: How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down

Exclusive: How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down

A set of internal Slack messages details the politics at one of the world’s most powerful AI companies.

How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down

The Scoop On June 1, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon gave employees a preview of a blog post denying the company had any connection to Leading the Future, a super PAC established to defend AI from regulation. OpenAI president Greg Brockman’s support for the super PAC “has been in a…

OpenAI’s Congressional Deadline Arrived. The Company Had Already Fired the People Who Helped Congress Understand Why.

The White House accord’s self-policing framework is being tested from three directions at once – congressional, regulatory, and internal whistleblowing – and the company’s response has been to fire the people who talked. On September 29, OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman stood at the White House to sign the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The document […]