Sam Altman’s OpenAI Support Initiative headed by several anti-Trump staff pushing liberal causes

OpenAI has partnered with a new AI initiative led by the group they co-founded with Outgoing Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry which has pushed left-wing causes and has several board members who are affiliated with Democrats.

OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, is backing an initiative known as AI 2030, which aims to shape “a public dialogue about America’s AI competition with China,” Politico reported in October.

The initiative is led by the “non-partisan” think tank American Security Project (ASP), of which Kerry was one of the founders and served twice on the board of directors.

ASP has promoted the idea that climate change is a threat to national security and he claimed 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 “to use for its Zero World War initiative, an effort to achieve action and mobilization through public awareness and education to halt the rise of global carbon emissions.” The Rockefeller Foundation has given tens of millions of dollars to leftist causes.

BIDEN ISSUES SECOND AI ACTION DURING LAST WEEK IN OFFICE WITH EXECUTIVE ORDER TO FAST TRACK US INFRASTRUCTURE

Kerry’s former chief of staff, David Wade, who endorsed Hunter Biden quick response help while the Burisma scandal was swirling, he currently sits on the board and recently wrote an op-ed in The Hill explaining how US AI has reached its “Sputnik moment,” emphasizing the need to compete with China in AI.

Former Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who called then President Trump “disgrace” in 2018, also sits on the ASP board.

ELON MUSK, AI AND TECHNOLOGY TITANS, PUSH CAPITALISTS INVITED TO THE PRE-INAUGURATION DINNER AT THE DAWN OF THE TRUMP ERA

Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who is also on ASP’s board of directors, publicly opposed Trump’s tariff policy, calling it “idiotic” and “illegal” in 2023. press release.

In 2018, ASP promoted op-ed by committee member Matthew Wallin in which he criticized Trump’s diplomatic tactics against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 2017, Wallin reinforced the debunked media narrative in the post on Xthen Twitter, that Trump called white supremacists at the deadly rally in Charlottesville “good people.”

Chris Lehane, who serves as OpenAI’s Head of Global Policy, is the author of the infamous and controversial “Conspiracy of the Far Right” letter promoted by then First Lady Hillary Clinton who 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 recently contributed money to help former Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Altman recently followed other tech titans in donating a substantial $1 million to Trump’s inauguration in his personal capacity, but has faced scrutiny for previous high-dollar donations to left-leaning efforts, including A donation of $250,000 to the Democratic super PAC and opposition research firm American Bridge during the 2020 election.

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN RINGING IN 2025 WITH CRYPTIC, RELATED TO FUTURE OF AI TWEET

Altman has donated to hundreds of Democrats in recent years compared to just one Republican, Newsweek reported last summer. He was also recently selected to co-chair the transition team for the incoming Democratic mayor of San Francisco.

In addition to hosting a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang at his home in San Francisco in late 2019, Altman donated more than a million dollars to Democrats and Democratic groups, including $600,000 to the Senate Majority PAC siding 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 the state’s Democratic Party 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 hosted by then-President Obama.

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

“It is critical that the US maintain leadership in the development of artificial intelligence with democratic values,” he added.

During Altman’s tenure from 2014 to 2019 as CEO of Y Combinator, the incubator that launched Airbnb, DoorDash and DropBox, he spoke about China in multiple blog posts and interviews. In 2017, Altman said that he “felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco” and that he felt expanding in China was “important” because “some of the most talented entrepreneurs” he met were working 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 artificial intelligence in the world run by someone who is not trustworthy.”

Musk, who was involved in highly publicized legal battle with Altman, also said that OpenAI’s ChatGPT function was infected with an “awakened virus”.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot whose basic 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 eliminate a lot of current jobs, that’s true. We can do a lot better. The reason for the development of artificial intelligence at all, in terms of impacting our lives and improving our lives, this is going to be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” Altman said in ABC News interview 2023 “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.”

WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)?

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 edge over China.”

“ASP is a nearly twenty-year-old bipartisan organization that works with lawmakers, retired military officers, subject matter experts and groups across the political spectrum to produce high-quality research and build bipartisan consensus on emerging threats to our national security,” an ASP spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

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

The statement continued: “The primary goal AI Imperative 2030 is to ensure that the US, not China, wins the race for AI supremacy. China aims to surpass the US and be the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030. We must not let this happen. President Trump has been a leader in building a bipartisan consensus that the U.S. needs to 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 toward that goal.”

Fox News Digital’s Nikolas Lanum, Cameron Cawthorne and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.