Nathan Calvin

OpenAI is pursuing legal action and subpoenas against AI governance nonprofits, alleging they are funded by billionaire competitors like Elon Musk and Dustin Moskovitz to obstruct the company's progress.

“General counsel of AI governance nonprofit Encode who was subpoenaed by OpenAI and discusses his experience being served legal papers.”

“Noted Cathedral access to sensitive Anthropic information about model architecture and research strategy in Slack.”

“Criticized Anthropic's policy decisions and safety commitments, particularly regarding recursive self-improvement and governance.”

“Posted nine Anthropic decisions seen as prioritizing competitive race ahead of safety considerations.”

“Criticized Anthropic's draft federal AI bill for making it harder to block dangerous AI models and questioned whether Anthropic prioritizes safety or race to superintelligence.”

“Praised the Hugging Face incident explainer as extremely well-done and noted its comprehensive list of rogue AI incidents.”

“Encode AI executive criticizes Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill for preventing states from enforcing laws to protect citizens from imminent harms.”

“Comments that either the nonprofit board safety committee was not notified about OpenAI safety warnings or they were and didn't intervene.”

“Supported California's SB 53 AI law according to Sacks; member of advocacy group that allegedly helped spread Coxon's post.”

“User with nuanced take that it's fine to think AGI is here if clear that models will get much better.”

“Advocacy group leader agreeing with Pachocki on AI risks but criticizing OpenAI for lack of transparency.”

“Tweeted about reporting showing OpenAI downplaying rather than hyping AI incidents.”

“Criticized lack of New York Times and Wall Street Journal coverage of METR report revelations about OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.”

OpenAI allegedly subpoenaed AI regulation advocates and their personal communications, claiming they are investigating Elon Musk's involvement while critics argue it is intimidation of AI safety advocates.

“Claims OpenAI sent police to serve him a subpoena requesting private messages with California legislators and others as part of OpenAI's lawsuit against Elon Musk.”