NewsNTech

OpenAI adds top US AI safety official to its foundation board amid regulatory capture accusations

9/9/2026

The constraint in AI governance, at this moment, is personnel flow.

Before comprehensive federal rules exist, the mechanism that shapes how AI companies get overseen is which safety officials move through their boards and institutions.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has appointed a top US AI safety official to its foundation board, a move that arrives as AI laboratories broadly face accusation of regulatory capture.

Regulatory capture operates through the ordinary movement of careers. Specialists with domain knowledge accumulate credibility in government, then migrate to or serve the private entities they understand best.

Keep reading

Read the full story

Open on NewsNTech