OpenAI has partnered with a new artificial intelligence initiative led by a team co-founded with the outgoing executive. Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry This advanced left-wing causes, and several board members were aligned with Democrats.

OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, supports an initiative called AI 2030, which aims to shape "a public conversation about the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence," Politico said. Reported in October.

The initiative is led by the "nonpartisan" think tank American Security Project (ASP), of which Kerry is a founding member and twice served on its board of directors.

ASP has promote the idea Climate change is a national security threat, and argue on its website Withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal is a bad idea that “undermines national security.” The organization previously received a $500,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation "for its Zero War Initiative, which seeks to create action and mobilization through awareness and public education to halt the increase in global carbon emissions." ” The Rockefeller Foundation has donated tens of millions of dollars to left-wing causes.

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Kerry's former chief of staff, David Wade, who provided quick-response help to Hunter Biden when the Burisma scandal broke and now serves on the board, recently wrote a story in The Hill An op-ed explaining how U.S. artificial intelligence has reached its “Sputnik moment,” outlines the need to compete with China in artificial intelligence.

Former Obama Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel known as then-president trump The "embarrassment" of 2018 also sits on the ASP board of directors.

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Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who is also an ASP board member, spoke out against Trump's tariff policy in a 2023 press release, calling it "stupid" and "illegal."

In 2018, the ASP promoted an op-ed by board member Matthew Wallin in which he criticized Trump's diplomatic strategy toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In 2017, Wallin published a post on X (and later Twitter) that amplified the debunked media narrative that Trump called white supremacists at the deadly Charlottesville rally "good people."

OpenAI Global Policy Director Chris Lehane is the author of the infamous and controversial "The Great Right-Wing Conspiracy" Memo upgrade Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton dismissed the Monica Lewinsky scandal as part of a right-wing media conspiracy.

In addition to being a longtime Democratic consultant, Lehane has recently donated to help former Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Altman recently followed other tech giants in personally donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration, but has come under scrutiny for previous high-dollar donations to left-wing campaigns, including Donate $250,000 Information provided to Democratic super PACs and opposition research firm American Bridge during the 2020 election.

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In recent years, Altman has donated to hundreds of Democrats and only one Republican, newsweek report This past summer. He was also recently named co-chair of San Francisco’s incoming Democratic mayor’s transition team.

In addition to hosting a fundraiser at Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s San Francisco home in late 2019, Ultraman has donated more than $1 million Funding to Democrats and Democratic groups, including $600,000 to the Senate Majority PAC aligned with Sen. Chuck Schumer, $100,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, and $100,000 to the Biden Victory Fund National Committee (DNC) provided more than $150,000. He has also donated thousands of dollars to state Democrats and top Democrats in the House and Senate.

In 2014, Altman co-hosted a Democratic National Committee fundraiser hosted by then-President Obama at the Y Combinator offices in Mountain View, California.

After Trump won in November, Altman posted on X, "Congratulations to President Trump. I wish him great success in his work."

"It is critical that the United States remains a leader in developing artificial intelligence that embodies democratic values," he added.

While Altman was CEO of Y Combinator, the incubator startup that launched Airbnb, DoorDash and DropBox, from 2014 to 2019, he talked about China in multiple blog posts and interviews. In 2017, Altman said he was "more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco" and that he believed expanding into China was "important" because of "some of the most talented entrepreneurs" he had encountered. Been operating there.

Altman's resume and artificial intelligence work 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 controlled by someone who isn't worthy of trust."

Musk, who has been involved in a well-publicized legal dispute with Altman, also said that OpenAI's ChatGPT function was infected with a "wakeup virus."

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot whose core function is to imitate humans for conversation. Users around the world use ChatGPT to write emails, debug computer programs, answer homework questions, play games, write stories and lyrics, and more.

“It will eliminate a lot of current jobs, that’s a fact. We can create better jobs. The fundamental reason for developing artificial intelligence is that it will be the most effective in terms of impact on our lives, improvements in our lives and benefits. Great technology humanity has yet to develop," Altman said in a 2023 interview with ABC News. “One of the things that excites me most about the promise of this technology is its ability to deliver personalized learning – good personalized learning for every student.”

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In recent months, OpenAI has been quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and seeking defense contracts, according to Forbes.

"America must win the race to artificial intelligence, which is why Americans on both sides of the aisle are united in support of policies that help the United States maintain a competitive advantage over China," an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"ASP is a nearly 20-year-old bipartisan organization that partners with legislators, retired military officers, subject matter experts and groups from across the political spectrum to produce high-quality research and reach bipartisan consensus on emerging threats to our national security. Consensus," an ASP spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement.

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“While OpenAI is one of many donors Artificial intelligence is imperative in 2030we ensure an equal balance between the opinions of independent experts and the consensus of America’s security members, including former Trump Homeland Security Adviser Dr. Julia Neshevat and former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under Trump, Neil Chatter lucky. We also recently hosted a roundtable with Nazak Nikakhtar, another former Trump official. "

The statement continued: “The main objective Artificial intelligence is imperative in 2030 is to ensure that the United States, not China, wins the race for AI supremacy. China aims to surpass the United States and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030. We cannot let this happen. President Trump has been a leader in building bipartisan consensus that the United States needs to compete more aggressively with China, and we look forward to working with his administration and a Republican Congress to design effective and cost-effective policies to achieve this goal. "

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