New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- A small non-profit has accused Sam Altman-led OpenAI of intimidation tactics to dilute California's proposed AI safety law, known in short as SB 53.

The accusation came in a now viral post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), by 29-year-old Nathan Calvin, legal counsel for Encode, who alleged that OpenAI is working to undermine the California Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53), which it is under debate by lawmakers.

In his own lengthy post addressing the issue, OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon, dismissed the allegations made by Calvin, and called Encode's funding under question - hinting that the public accusation was funded by Elon Musk.

Calvin alleged that OpenAI is ...