‘Employee revolt’ brewing inside ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, and the reason is that a group of employees have donated more than $215,000 to…
Some OpenAI employees have started quietly bankrolling a campaign against their own president. More than $215,000 of their own money has gone to Leading the Future’s chief rival—a super PAC that wants exactly the kind of AI rules their boss is spending millions to prevent. That boss is Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, who helped seed Leading the Future with a chunk of its $100 million-plus war chest. The staffers are backing Guardrails Alliance, a group launched last month with $5 million to push for tougher oversight of frontier AI labs. First reported by Wired, the split lays bare a widening rift inside the company over who should write the rules for the technology it’s racing to build.
One engineer put up $200,000 of the total
