{"id":1021499,"date":"2026-07-16T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021499"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:15:23","slug":"employee-revolt-brewing-inside-chatgpt-maker-openai-and-the-reason-is-that-a-group-of-employees-have-donated-more-than-215000-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/employee-revolt-brewing-inside-chatgpt-maker-openai-and-the-reason-is-that-a-group-of-employees-have-donated-more-than-215000-to\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Employee revolt&#8217; brewing inside ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, and the reason is that a group of employees have donated more than $215,000 to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s chief rival\u2014a super PAC that wants exactly the kind of AI rules their boss is spending millions to prevent. That boss is Greg Brockman, OpenAI&#8217;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&#8217;s racing to build.<\/p>\n<p>One engineer put up $200,000 of the total<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s chief rival\u2014a super PAC that wants exactly the kind of AI rules their boss is spending millions to prevent. That boss is Greg Brockman, OpenAI&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021500,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021499\/revisions\/1021500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}