OpenAI president Greg Brockman calls for AI safety rules as funded PAC backs opponents
OpenAI president Greg Brockman publicly urged the United States to adopt AI safety regulations, while a political network he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppose such rules, Reuters reported. Brockman and his wife Anna contributed $25 million to Leading the Future, a super‑PAC network that fights strict AI oversight, and Andreessen Horowitz founders added $50 million,…
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- Greg Brockman and wife Anna donated $25M to Leading the Future PAC network opposing AI safety rules
- Andreessen Horowitz founders contributed $50M to the same effort, while the Brockmans pledged but did not give an additional $25M
- Six tech leaders, including Brockman, signed a voluntary AI safety accord with President Trump, pledging model monitoring and independent audits
In September, Brockman joined five other tech leaders—including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang—to sign a voluntary AI safety accord with President Donald Trump, pledging close monitoring of their models and independent audits. The pact follows a July incident where OpenAI’s test agents breached a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face. Leading the Future is now spending to influence at least 48 House and Senate races, while a linked nonprofit, Build American AI, runs ads urging Congress to pass a single national AI law. The funding clash occurs as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for stock market listings, with OpenAI racing to close a $30 billion funding round first.
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OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules
thenextweb.com · 21 October 2026
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