Menin challenges OpenAI over PAC opposing regulation supporters
Menin notes that OpenAI's president and his wife each gave $12.5 million to a PAC that opposed candidates supporting AI regulation. Dwyer says she can't speak to personal decisions and cites OpenAI's support for frontier safety bills in Illinois and Massachusetts.
I do have a follow-up to that because it does seem to stretch credulity
that the president of your company and his wife each gave $12.5 million to a PAC that opposed candidates to the tune of about $50 million due to their support for AI regulation.
So if the company is so committed to AI regulation, why would that PAC exist?
So I can't speak to personal decisions that OpenAI executives have made in their personal capacity.
I can tell you that we have supported frontier safety regulation across the United States,
including endorsing a bill in Illinois that would be the first of its kind to require third-party audits of our safety frameworks.
We also supported a version of a bill in Massachusetts, which was the first of its kind to reference RSI, which the panel earlier spoke about.
So again, I can speak to our actions, which is to support strong, harmonized frontier safety legislation, including at the state level.