Exclusive: How employees forced OpenAI’s president to back down
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 personal capacity, not on behalf of the company,” Kwon wrote in an internal Slack message.Not everyone on his staff bought it. One OpenAI employee took to Slack to warn of a dangerous trade-off: The company’s aggressiv...
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