OpenAI's Brockman signed AI safety pledge for OpenAI while funding group opposing regulation, Reuters reports

OpenAI President Greg Brockman signed President Donald Trump's voluntary AI safety agreement on OpenAI's behalf, as one of six tech executives to do so, even as a political group he helped fund opposes AI regulation, Reuters reported.

According to Reuters, the agreement commits signers to work with "independent auditors" and to ensure their AI tools do not "hack or access technical systems in unintended ways."

$25 million to Leading the Future

Brockman and his wife, Anna, gave $25 million to Leading the Future, a political group that opposes regulations that "unduly constrain or delay AI development," Reuters reported. The group is spending in at least 48 races for US House and Senate seats, according to Reuters.

OpenAI said the donation was made in a personal capacity, not on behalf of the company, Reuters reported. Brockman's personal spokesperson declined to comment on his donations.

Reuters also noted that The New York Times reported in September that the Brockmans backed out of a pledge to donate another $25 million to the group. Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and their firm Andreessen Horowitz gave a combined $50 million to Leading the Future, according to Federal Election Commission records cited by Reuters.

Competing views

"There are leaders in industry who want to pay lip service to regulation because they realize where public opinion is," Charlie Blaettler of Guardrails Alliance, a group formed to counter Leading the Future, told Reuters. "But they're the same leaders who stood up a super PAC whose sole purpose was to oppose candidates who stand up for regulation."

Leading the Future spokesperson Jesse Hunt did not address the donation, Reuters reported, saying in a statement that the group seeks "champions who can work together in Congress to advance a strong, responsible national regulatory AI framework."