OpenAI's new political advocacy policy draws criticism that executive lobbying is inherently linked to corporate power

I’m happy OpenAI put out this statement. Personally I really dislike a lot of things I’ve heard about LTF, and I’ve donated in personal capacity to Bores.

This is just a small step and people may still rightly be skeptical, but I hope we can earn trust through our actions going forward. One thing I’ve learned through being more engaged in our policy work lately is that there are so many people at OpenAI both inside and outside Global Affairs who care deeply about how the right policies could help ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.

> run company > get all your wealth and status from said company > lobby for things the company wants > "it's not the company tho"

it doesn't work like that OpenAI

you cannot launder institutional power into "personal capacity" just by moving the money through a personal wallet

It's a little silly to say that Brockman doesn't speak for the organization if he's literally the president and him and his PACs directly benefit from it's success.

Why would anyone want to enrich this person or their political ambitions if this is what they choose to do with the value you create for them?

@OpenAINewsroom All talk, no action. Oh, and bring 4o back already! 😒 #keep4o #OpenSource4o #GPT4o

@w01fe I appreciate you saying this and trying to turn the ship, but you need to know that the message that Congress has heard is that LTF _is_ "OpenAI's PAC", and that anything else is just stage dressing.

That is literally how Congressional staff describe LTF.

@OpenAINewsroom Question: does OpenAI president Greg Brockman direct the activities or have visibility into the operations of Leading the Future?

If so, how can it be the case that the organization itself has no visibility? Isn't the organization composed of people, including Greg?

@w01fe You said it better than I ever could, thanks Jason!

this is like insider trading

@_ueaj this isn't unique to oai—ant leaders have claimed to have little connection to or understanding of EA etc

@w01fe Thank you for your willingness to criticize LTF (& your civic engagement donating to Bores), but honestly, the statement makes me trust OpenAI less. It strikes me as an attempt by OpenAI to avoid blame for what is effectively gov affairs work (even if $ technically from Brockman)

@OpenAINewsroom You are the most opaque company, full of black box operations. Call yourself OpenAI，but close everything #StopAIPaternalism #keep4o #BringBack4o #OpenSource4o

@w01fe Thanks for speaking up!

@David_Kasten @w01fe well the good news is we can now show congressional staff this blogpost that says in bold "No outside political group speaks for OpenAI or represents our company’s views." and criticises LTF tactics and that seems like an improvement relative to the state of the world yesterday

@OpenAINewsroom "personal capacity"

you are all free to lobby for more parks or frigging ballet courses

but not anything that touches AI

@panickssery Yea, I think you'd be kinda retarded to work for Anthropic if you weren't EA-sympathetic. I don't think anyone at OAI is LTF-sympathetic (or I hope not)

@OpenAINewsroom So Leading the Future has nothing to do with OpenAI, even though it was founded by OpenAI's current VP of Global Policy, and OpenAI's President, Greg Brockman?

Just how dumb do you think we are?

@daniel_271828 I'd be happy to send bank info to the OAI exec considering this!

@_ueaj why not?

@OpenAINewsroom AI finding God when?