OpenAI has partnered with a new AI initiative led by a group co-founded by the outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry which pushed left-wing causes and has several Democratic-aligned board members.
OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, is backing an initiative known as AI 2030, which aims to shape “a public dialogue about American competition against China in artificial intelligence,” Politico reported. Reported in October.
The initiative is led by the nonpartisan think tank American Security Project (ASP), where Kerry was a founding member and served two terms on the board.
Asia Pacific has I promoted this idea That climate change poses a threat to national security, and He argued on his website That withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear agreement was a bad idea that “harms national security.” The group previously received a $500,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation “to be used for its Global War Zero initiative, an effort to bring action and mobilization through awareness and public education to stop the increase in global carbon emissions.” The Rockefeller Foundation has allocated tens of millions of dollars to left-wing causes.
President-elect Trump, left, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Getty Images)
Kerry's former chief of staff David Wade, who gave Hunter Biden Rapid response assistance As the Burisma scandal unfolds, he currently sits on the board and recently authored an op-ed in The Hill explaining how AI in the United States has reached its “Sputnik moment,” outlining the need to compete with China in the field of AI.
Former Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who He called then-President Trump “Embarrassment” in 2018, and is also a member of the ASP Board of Directors.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry attends the Viva Technology Expo at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris on May 23, 2024. (Chestnut/Getty Images)
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who is also a member of the ASP board, has publicly opposed Trump's tariff policies, calling them “stupid” and “illegal” in the 2023 election. press release.
In 2018, Asp Promoted an editorial Written by Board Member Matthew Whalen criticizing Trump's diplomatic tactics against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2017, Wallen amplified the debunked media narrative in an article Share on XThen he tweeted that Trump described the white supremacists at the deadly Charlottesville rally as “fine people.”
Chris Lehane, who serves as head of global policy at OpenAI, is the author of the popular and controversial “Right-Wing Mega-Conspiracy.” The note has been upgraded By then-First Lady Hillary Clinton who dismissed the Monica Lewinsky scandal as part of a right-wing media conspiracy.
Besides being a longtime Democratic Party consultant, Lehane recently did so Contribute money To help former Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and Senator Adam Schiff, Democrat of California.
Altman recently followed other tech giants and gave a large $1 million gift to Trump's inauguration in his personal capacity, but has faced scrutiny over past high-value donations to left-wing efforts, including Donate $250,000 To the Democratic super PAC and opposition research firm American Bridge during the 2020 election.
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 18, 2024. (Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Altman has donated to hundreds of Democrats in recent years compared to just one Republican. Newsweek reported This past summer. He was also recently appointed to serve as co-chair of the transition team for the next Democratic mayor of San Francisco.
In addition to hosting a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang at his San Francisco home in late 2019, Altman donated more than $1 million For Democrats and Democratic groups, including $600,000 to the Senate Majority Political Action Committee aligned with Senator Chuck Schumer, $100,000 to the Biden Victory Fund and more than $150,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Thousands also gave to state Democratic parties and top Democrats in the House and Senate.
In 2014, Altman co-hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the Y Combinator offices in Mountain View, California, which was headlined by then-President Obama.
After Trump's victory in November, Altman Published on X“Congratulations to President Trump. I wish him great success in office.”
He added: “It is extremely important that the United States maintains its leadership in developing artificial intelligence with democratic values.”
During Altman's tenure from 2014 to 2019 as CEO of Y Combinator, a startup incubator that launched Airbnb, DoorDash and DropBox, he spoke about China in numerous blog posts and interviews. In 2017, Altman said that he “felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco” and that he felt expanding into China was “important” because “some of the most talented entrepreneurs” he had met were working there.
Altman's resume and artificial intelligence efforts have drawn the ire of Trump ally Elon Musk in recent years. “I don't trust OpenAI. I don't trust Sam Altman. I don't think we should have the most powerful AI in the world controlled by someone who's untrustworthy,” Musk said last year.
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during a US PAC town hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 2024. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Musk, who participated in A It received great publicity A legal dispute with Altman also said that OpenAI's ChatGPT function was infected with the “wake virus.”
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot whose primary function is to imitate a human in conversation. Users around the world have used ChatGPT to write emails, debug computer programs, answer homework questions, play games, write stories and song lyrics, and much more.
“It will eliminate a lot of existing jobs, that's true. We can make much better jobs,” Altman said in a 2023 interview with ABC News. “Humanity has not yet evolved.” “The promise of this technology, which is one of the things I'm most excited about, is the ability to provide individualized learning – great individualized learning for every student.”
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In recent months, OpenAI has reportedly been quietly promoting its products to the US military and seeking defense contracts. Forbes reported.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, an OpenAI spokesperson said: “America must win the AI race, which is why Americans on both sides of the aisle are united in supporting policies that help the United States remain competitive against China.”
“ASP is a nearly twenty-year-old bipartisan organization that works with lawmakers, retired flag officers, subject matter experts, and groups from across the political spectrum to produce high-quality research and forge bipartisan consensus on emerging threats to our national security.” An ASP spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2023. (Getty Images)
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“Although OpenAI is one of many donors to The inevitability of artificial intelligence 2030we ensure an equal balance of informed opinions by independent experts and the consensus of US security members, including Julia Nesheiwat, Ph.D., Trump's former Homeland Security Advisor, and Neil Chatterjee, former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under Trump. We also recently hosted a roundtable featuring Nazik Nikkhtar, another former Trump official.”
The statement continued: “The primary goal The inevitability of artificial intelligence 2030 The goal is to ensure that the United States, not China, wins the race for AI supremacy. China aims to overtake the United States and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030. We cannot let that happen. President Trump has been a leader in creating a bipartisan consensus that the United States needs to compete more aggressively with China, and we look forward to working with his administration and the Republican Congress to design effective and cost-effective policies to achieve this goal.
Fox News Digital's Nicholas Lannom, Cameron Cawthorn and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.
