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• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  The campaign-finance details: Anthropic is voluntarily disclosing its $20 million donation to a dark-money 501(c)4 group, Public First. Public First, in turn, makes donations to its allied Democratic and Republican super PACs. Public First is going up with ads supporting

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  NEWS: Anthropic is putting $20 million into a super PAC operation that is meant as a direct counter to the OpenAI super PAC operation. The midterms are the new battleground between these two rival AI labs. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @aricohn Ari Cohn on x

  I guess free speech isn't part of Claude's “constitution,” eh @AnthropicAI

• @burgessev Burgess Everett on x

  Anthropic is sending $20 million to Public First Action, a new group which is launching a pro-Sen. Blackburn ad on KOSA today Defending Our Values PAC is also launching a today backing Sen. Ricketts on keeping advanced AI chips out of hands of adversaries

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  And more! Anthropic just announced it donated $20m to Public First Action, the group which has (directly and indirectly) funded both these ads. [image]

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  🚨The Public First AI safety advocacy groups/PACs have launched their first ads: - One supporting Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee (praises her work on KOSA and TRUMP America AI Act) - One backing Sen. Pete Rickets (a big chip export control supporter) in Nebraska — doesn't talk

• @corbtt Kyle Corbitt on x

  My timeline is spooked by incoming AGI but Anthropic is spooked by the impending political backlash to it haha.

• @santosh_arron Santosh Arron on x

  Anthropic's $20M backing pro-regulation candidates R&D World vs OpenAI's partners spending $125M to kill state AI laws. The two leading AI labs are literally funding opposing political campaigns to control how they get regulated. The companies building superintelligence are now

• @emrwilkins Emily Wilkins on x

  It's the battle of the AI PACs. Anthropic is giving $20M to Public First Action, a group backing candidates who want MORE regulation on AI and chips. Public First Action is making their first six-figure ad buys today - backing safe bets of Marsha Blackburn and Pete Ricketts.

• @neil_chilson Neil Chilson on x

  Anthropic's announcement of a $20 million political spend to regulate AI has a strong taste of the smugness too common in the AI x-risk community. It suggests that anyone who disagrees with Anthropic's policy positions simply doesn't understand what is at stake. [image]

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Anthropic has a habit of tripping over itself with the Trump administration that reminds me of Chris Moltisanti's heroin habit, where I as the sympathetic viewer am like, “my god, Chris, you were doing so well, you were on the right track, and then you blew it all up.” [image]

• @ryangrim Ryan Grim on x

  AI companies are jumping into the Nebraska senate race to defend the billionaire Pete Ricketts against independent mechanic Dan Osborn

• @cesarfernand3z Cesar Fernandez on x

  .@AnthropicAI is donating $20 million to Public First Action, a new bipartisan 501(c)(4) working to get AI policy right. Public First Action will work with Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who share the same policy priorities: ✅ Insisting on AI model transparency

• @charalambos_the Dr Charalambos Theodorou on x

  Anthropic's $20M to Public First Action backs candidates who want model transparency, bio/cyber safeguards, chip export controls, and balanced federal rules (no blanket state preemption). Do you think this accelerates meaningful AI policy in '26, or just heats up the PAC battles?

• @anthropicai @anthropicai on x

  AI is being adopted faster than any technology in history. The window to get policy right is closing. Today we're contributing $20m to Public First Action, a new bipartisan org that will mobilize people and politicians who understand what's at stake. https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  Yeah, notable that the first two efforts from the Anthropic-backed groups are spending for Republicans who don't totally agree with Trump.

• @tombibbys Tom Bibby on x

  You couldn't even bring yourselves to officially endorse SB 1047. I hope this money can go towards serious regulation but I'm worried it will drown out calls for a global pause with milquetoast incident reporting mandates and we'll still all end up dead.

• @adamkovac Adam Kovacevich on x

  What started as an AI safety / EA-driven PAC effort to help Alex Bores in NY is apparently now becoming a vehicle for Anthropic's squabble against NVIDIA over export controls. And the PAC's first recipients are Republicans. The bedfellows are indeed strange.

• @lisaabramowicz1 Lisa Abramowicz on x

  A pretty interesting release from Anthropic as they raise money to make new inroads into AI. “Recent polling finds that 69% of Americans think the government is ‘not doing enough to regulate the use of AI.’ We agree.” https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  Pretty big contrast with OAI here, not just on substance of the respective PACs but on transparency re: the PAC being explicitly supported by the company (Ant) vs. “just” being funded by a cofounder and also totally coincidentally being closely tied to its head of policy (OAI)

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  One thing about the dueling AI super PACs is how BOTH sides are affected by what happened with crypto in 2024. The AI industry accelerationists explicitly want to replicate what happened with Fairshake. Some of the operatives and donors are even the same. Meanwhile, the AI

• @kevincollier Kevin Collier on bluesky

  It's kind of funny to imagine all these powerful rich and smart (at least in some ways) tech people freaking out this way.  Like if you really think this can you not unplug it?

• r/technology r on reddit

  AI insiders are sounding the alarm