Yglesias urges OpenAI employees to collectively act against anti-regulation super PAC
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-12
Columnist Matthew Yglesias publishes "A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.", with Aaron Bergman urging AI-safety voices like @tszzl and @TheZvi to read it.
- Context: Anthropic senior employee Jacob Coxon quit over recursive self-improvement extinction risk, becoming a national story after the Hugging Face breach
- Yglesias notes Zuckerberg called Trump to talk him out of federal regulation, arguing concerned Meta employees must collectively demand he stop — or walk
- OpenAI tells employees it isn't behind the anti-regulation super PAC "Leading the Future," but nobody in politics believes it: the PAC is funded largely by president Greg Brockman and his wife, conceptualized by chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane
- The PAC pours money into primaries against AI-safety candidates, aiming to chill the whole regulatory topic with Democratic leaders
- Conclusion: OpenAI employees who believe in collective action should demand the company cease the effort; if it won't, they need to walk
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