"The Safe AI Coalition reached out to activist organizations across the country, soliciting their endorsement for a set of child safety policy proposals. Coincidently, those proposals were eerily similar to the ones found on child safety legislation in California that OpenAI itself had co-signed, which would have protected AI companies from liability associated with their products."
"Outside organizers - whose endorsements gave the coalition the veneer of a popular front - said they'd been given no indication that the coalition was founded, funded, and directed by OpenAI."
""It's a very grimy feeling," an anonymous organizer told the Standard. "To find out they're trying to sneak around behind the scenes and do something like this - I don't want to say they're outright lying, but they're sending emails that are pretty misleading.""
Frontier AI companies are under pressure to outmaneuver rivals for wealth and political influence. The Parents and Kids Safe AI Coalition, presented as a grassroots organization, was actually a front group created by OpenAI lawyers. This coalition solicited endorsements for child safety proposals that mirrored legislation co-signed by OpenAI, aimed at protecting AI companies from liability. Organizers were unaware of the coalition's true origins, leading to disillusionment and withdrawal of support from some groups after the truth was revealed.
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