OpenAI secretly funded a California coalition pushing age verification laws for AI, only to have members discover they were backing the very company that stood to benefit. The Parents and Kids Safe AI Coalition, formed to support the Parents and Kids Safe AI Act, received backing from OpenAI alongside Common Sense Media but omitted the company from its outreach materials. Several advocacy groups lent support without realising they were aligning themselves with the AI firm. https://gizmodo.com/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-turns-out-to-be-sneakily-backed-by-openai-2000741069 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics #OpenAI