A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules
Silicon Valley is spending more than $100mn to elect politicians who will leave AI alone. A new group of tech workers wants to fight back with a fraction of that.
The Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that supports AI regulation, launched on Thursday with money from tech employees, labour unions and parents. Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix are behind it. It has about $5mn at its disposal now and hopes to raise $15mn this cycle, according to the New York Times.
A $5M knife to a $100M gunfight
The asymmetry is the point.
Guardrails’ main adversary, a pro-AI super PAC called Leading the Future, has more than $100mn from the likes of OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Andreessen Horowitz and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. It backs candidates who favour light-touch AI rules, part of a wider push in Washington to stop states from regulating the technology.
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