Sam Altman’s OpenAI support initiative spearheaded by several anti-Trump employees pushing liberal causes

OpenAI has partnered with a new AI initiative led by an outgoing co-founded group Special Presidential Climate Envoy, John Kerry which has pushed left-wing causes and has several board members aligned with Democrats.

OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, is supporting an initiative known as AI 2030, which aims to shape the “public dialogue about US-China competition in AI,” Politico. reported in October.

The initiative is led by the “non-partisan” think tank American Security Project (ASP), where Kerry was a founding member and served two stints on the board.

ASP has promoted the idea that climate change is a threat to national security, and he argues on his website that withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal was a bad idea that “harms national security.” The group previously received a $500,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation “for use by its World War Zero initiative, an effort to achieve action and mobilization through public awareness and education to stop the rise of global carbon emissions”. The Rockefeller Foundation has given tens of millions of dollars to left-wing causes.

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Kerry’s former chief of staff, David Wade, who gave to Hunter Biden quick response help as the Burisma scandal unfolded, he currently serves on the board of directors and recently authored an op-ed in The Hill explaining how AI in America has reached its “Sputnik moment” , highlighting the need to compete with China in AI.

Former Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who called then President Trump an “embarrassment” in 2018, he is also on the ASP board.

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Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who also serves on the ASP board, has publicly opposed Trump’s tariff policies, calling them “idiotic” and “illegal” in a 2023 . press release

In 2018, ASP promoted an opinion piece from board member Matthew Wallin in which he criticized Trump’s diplomatic tactics against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 2017, Wallin amplified the debunked media narrative in a publish to Xthen on Twitter, that Trump called the white supremacists at the deadly Charlottesville demonstration “good people.”

Chris Lehane, who serves as Global Policy Head of OpenAI, is the author of the infamous and controversial “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” grade promoted Then-first lady Hillary Clinton dismissed the Monica Lewinsky scandal as part of a right-wing media conspiracy.

In addition to being a longtime consultant to the Democratic Party, Lehane has recently contributed money to help former Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Altman recently followed other tech titans in making a major $1 million gift to Trump’s inauguration in his personal capacity, but has faced scrutiny for past high-dollar donations to efforts by the left, including one Donation of $250,000 to a Democratic super PAC and opposition research firm American Bridge during the 2020 election.

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Altman has given to hundreds of Democrats in recent years compared to just one Republican. Newsweek reported this past summer He was also recently tapped to co-chair the transition team for San Francisco’s incoming Democratic mayor.

In addition to hosting a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang at his San Francisco home in late 2019, Altman has given more than $1 million to Democrats and Democratic groups, including $600,000 to the Senate Majority PAC aligned with Sen. Chuck Schumer, $100,000 to the Biden Victory Fund and more than $150,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He also gave thousands to state Democratic parties and top Democrats in the House and Senate.

In 2014, Altman co-hosted a fundraiser for the DNC at Y Combinator’s offices in Mountain View, California, which was headlined by then-President Obama.

After Trump’s victory in November, Altman published in X“Congratulations to President Trump. I wish him great success at work.”

“It is very important that the US maintains its leadership in the development of AI with democratic values,” he added.

During Altman’s tenure from 2014 to 2019 as CEO of Y Combinator, a startup incubator that launched Airbnb, DoorDash and DropBox, he discussed China in several blog posts and interviews. In 2017, Altman said he “felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco” and that he felt an expansion into China was “important” because “some of the most talented entrepreneurs” he has met have been operating . there

Altman’s resume and AI efforts have drawn the ire of Trump ally Elon Musk in recent years. Musk said last year: “I don’t trust OpenAI. I don’t trust Sam Altman. And I don’t think we should have the most powerful AI in the world controlled by someone who isn’t trustworthy.”

Musk, who has been involved with a much publicized legal fight with Altman, has also said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT feature is infected with the “awakened virus”.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot whose main function is to imitate a human in a 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 more.

“It’s going to take out a lot of jobs today, that’s true. We can make a lot better ones. The reason to develop AI, in terms of impacting our lives and making our lives better, that’s going to be the biggest technology. humanity has yet to develop,” Altman said in a 2023 interview with ABC News. “The promise of this technology, one of the things I’m most excited about, is the ability to provide individualized learning, great individualized learning for each student.”

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In recent months, OpenAI has reportedly been quietly pitching its products to the US military and pursuing defense contracts. Forbes reported.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, an OpenAI spokesperson said, “America must win the AI ​​race, and that’s why Americans on both sides of the aisle are united in supporting policies that help the US maintain its competitive advantage against China.”

“ASP is a nearly twenty-year-old bipartisan organization that works with lawmakers, retired flag officers, subject matter experts, and groups 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.

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“Although OpenAI is one of many donors to Imperative AI 2030we ensure an equal balance of opinions reported by independent experts and members of Consensus for American Security, including Julia Nesheiwat, Ph.D., Trump’s former national security adviser, and Neil Chatterjee, former chairman of the Federal Commission of Energy Regulation under Trump. We also recently hosted a panel discussion with Nazak Nikakhtar, another former Trump official.”

The statement continued: “The main objective of Imperative AI 2030 is to ensure that the US, not China, wins the race for AI supremacy. China aims to overtake the US and lead the world in AI by 2030. We cannot let this happen. President Trump has been a leader in building a bipartisan consensus that the United States must compete more vigorously 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 Nikolas Lanum, Cameron Cawthorne and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.