Yglesias Urges OpenAI Staff to Oppose 'Leading the Future' — SkimNews
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- Matthew Yglesias argues in Slow Boring that OpenAI employees should oppose the company's support for "Leading the Future," which he says seeks to chill federal AI regulation, and calls on Congress to hold hearings on AI risks.
- Yglesias anchors the case by citing Jacob Coxon, a senior Anthropic employee who quit his job last week, invoking the departure as evidence that AI labs' employees take AI risks seriously enough to resign over them.
Why it matters: The piece pairs industry-internal dissent (an Anthropic resignation) with an explicit call for OpenAI employees to break ranks with their employer's lobbying stance, landing at a moment when AI labs are actively funding efforts to shape regulation and federal lawmakers are weighing whether to hold risk-focused hearings.
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