A group of rank-and-file OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a super PAC pushing for stricter regulations on frontier AI labs. Guardrails Alliance, which launched last month with $5 million in total initial funding, bills itself as a populist effort supported by tech workers, labor unions, and other groups. It's aiming to be a counterweight to Leading the Future, a pro-AI industry super PAC bankrolled with more than $100 million from technology leaders, including OpenAI president and cofounder Greg Brockman. Seven current OpenAI employees have donated to Guardrails Alliance, as well as one former employee. One of the largest donations came from Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe, who gave $200,000. Cerón Uribe, who has been a research engineer at OpenAI since 2022, told WIRED he spent the last four years working on the company's strategies for mitigating potential societal harms caused by AI. "In this time, I've become concerned that all that research will have gone to waste if it doesn't translate to guardrails that hold private companies accountable for the responsible development of AI," he said. The donations highlight growing tensions inside OpenAI over its efforts to shape AI policy.
OpenAI Employees Fund Rival Super PAC to Counter Boss's Political Spending
updated at July 15, 2026