Exclusive: OpenAI expands policy team amid legislative headwinds
The expansion comes as bipartisan efforts across the country to regulate artificial intelligence intensify
TL;DR
- OpenAI has hired three policy professionals to bolster its global affairs team.
- The new hires will focus on state policy and partnerships, with expertise in Republican and Democratic circles.
- Jessica Schumer, formerly of the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisers and Amazon, will cover the Northeast.
- Caulder Harvill-Childs, previously at Meta, will lead state-level policy in the Southeast.
- Thomas MacLellan, with over two decades of cyber and public policy experience, will head state cyber defense policy.
- This expansion is part of OpenAI's 'reverse federalism' approach to create national AI standards via state laws.
- OpenAI has already influenced AI transparency laws in California and New York.