‘People-powered’ super PAC launches to counter AI industry spending

A new political organization launched Thursday to “confront the efforts” of the pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, which has poured millions of dollars into congressional primaries across the country.

The super PAC, named Guardrails Alliance, said it will represent parents, unions and tech workers to “follow the money” and “expose how a small group of Trump-aligned AI billionaires is trying to buy our elections.”

The super PAC also kicked off its first ad buy Thursday, spending $250,000 in support of New York Assembly member Alex Bores in New York’s 12th Congressional District race. Bores is one of Leading the Future’s main targets, spending more than $7 million against his campaign.

Leading the Future, launched last year, has received funding from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman,........

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