Silicon Valley Is Pouring Millions Into Pro-ai Pacs To Sway Midterms

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Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among nan Silicon Valley veterans putting much than $100 cardinal into a web of political-action committees (PACs) that will advocator against strict AI regulations successful adjacent year’s midterm elections, reports The Wall Street Journal. 

The caller pro-AI super-PAC web dubbed “Leading nan Future” intends to usage run donations and integer ads to advocator for favorable AI regularisation and reason candidates that nan group thinks will stifle nan industry.

Both Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI were portion of a push earlier this twelvemonth to instrumentality a 10-year moratorium connected states’ authorities to create their ain AI regulations. The prohibition was ultimately struck down, but nan AI manufacture continues to conflict against a “patchwork of regulations,” which they opportunity would slow down invention and put nan U.S. astatine consequence of losing nan AI title to China.

The group hopes to reflector its attack connected pro-crypto super-PAC web Fairshake, which helped cement a triumph for Donald Trump. It will mostly align pinch nan policies of White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, per The Journal. 

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