[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-openai-offers-100k-grants-to-test-democratic-ai-governance":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},1156,"openai-offers-100k-grants-to-test-democratic-ai-governance","OpenAI Pays $1M for Democratic AI Governance Experiments","OpenAI's nonprofit arm is awarding ten $100,000 grants for democratic AI governance experiments, each bounded by whatever the law already allows.","OpenAI's nonprofit arm is funding experiments in letting the public help set AI rules - up to a point.\n\nOpenAI, Inc., the nonprofit entity that sits at the top of the company's layered corporate structure, announced ten grants of $100,000 each to fund experiments in democratic governance of AI systems. The goal is to surface workable models for collective decision-making about what AI should and shouldn't do. Grantees would design and run small-scale democratic processes, generating evidence about what meaningful public input into AI rule-setting might look like. One detail embedded in the announcement: any outputs from these democratic experiments must stay \"within the bounds defined by the law\" - meaning the hard limits aren't up for vote.\n\nThe framing is doing real work here. OpenAI is implicitly conceding that decisions about AI behavior - what the models will say, refuse, or amplify - shouldn't rest entirely with a small leadership team. That's a quiet but significant acknowledgment of a legitimacy gap that critics have raised for years. Whether research grants actually close that gap, or mostly generate goodwill while the real decisions stay internal, remains to be seen.\n\nThe total outlay is $1 million. For a company that has raised billions in recent years, that number is a reasonable measure of how much democratic input OpenAI is actually buying.","[\"ai governance\",\"openai\",\"grants\",\"policy\"]","2023-05-25T07:00:00.000Z","2026-06-16T14:27:23.055Z","2026-06-19T13:16:04.867Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,27,28,29],"ai governance","openai","grants","policy",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"OpenAI","https:\u002F\u002Fopenai.com\u002Findex\u002Fdemocratic-inputs-to-ai",0,{"sections":36},[37,41,46,51,55,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100],{"name":38,"slug":24,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI",2602,"2026-07-18T18:30:00.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":43,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",315,"2026-07-17T19:30:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":29,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Policy",169,"2026-07-17T19:49:53.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Hardware","hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Software","software",72,"2026-07-17T09:42:05.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",60,"2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]