Kids groups say they didn’t know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition

The San Francisco Standard: What many of them did not state was that the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition was funded entirely by OpenAI, the world’s most popular AI chatbot company. The principles it was asking nonprofits to endorse mirrored policy proposals in a child safety bill OpenAI co-sponsored and filed as a ballot initiative this year, and is now hoping to get the California Legislature to adopt.

As it works to get its preferred legislation passed in California, OpenAI has assembled a growing coalition of supporters that, in some cases, were unaware of its role in founding and funding the coalition…