Source: New York Post
A push in California to clamp down on AI giants has taken a bizarre twist – after ballot measures that appear to be aimed at Sam Altman’s OpenAI were filed by the stepbrother of an executive at archrival Anthropic, The Post has learned. In December, a California resident named Alexander Oldham filed a pair of ballot measures that would empower the state to crack down on major AI firms, in part by putting a special focus on policing “public benefit corporations” – the corporate structure that OpenAI recently converted its for-profit arm into. “I think these are all reasonably common sense measures to take but background wise I’m a nobody,” Oldham told Politico, adding that AI regulation was “just something I find interesting.
