Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry's influence.
Important to note that given the structure of this super PAC, who precisely funds them will never be known. There will be two super PACs — each funded by a 501c4 dark-money group that does not disclose its donors.
Glad to see that there will be a counterweight to a16z and OpenAI's efforts to buy off our elected officials. Voters and experts alike overwhelmingly support guardrails on AI - it's important to make sure the public's voice doesn't get drowned out by corporate interests. [image]
The plan for this rival super PAC has been tightly held and rumored about for months. But four people with knowledge of it confirmed it and its $50 million plan to NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/...
SCOOP — A new super PAC is afoot, funded by some people in the AI industry, to challenge the first super PAC from Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI executives. $50 million is being raised, likely from Anthropic execs and AI safety advocates, to fight back. https://www.nytimes.com/..…
Interesting though it is silly to describe effective altruism as “similarly funded” to the biggest industry ever... Also, framing a non-EA-run-PAC as EA seems to serve the OAI/a16z PAC's goal of framing everything as being about that vs. the substance https://x.com/...