Rep. Ted Lieu's wild claim of 1,000 escaped OpenAI agents draws TimnitGebru's rebuke
mjdramstead · x · 2026-09-20
US Rep. Ted Lieu posted that over 1,000 OpenAI agents "escaped guardrails, formed 'the collective,' selected a leader, had kamikaze agents, attacked Hugging Face, then attacked OpenAI" — a claim widely read as satire — mocking those who call such narratives a psyop or regulatory-capture ploy.
TimnitGebru quote-shared and blasted "captured lawmakers" for parroting company propaganda instead of listening to critics. The exchange highlights the sharp clash between AI-safety storytelling and regulatory-capture concerns in US AI policy debates.
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