Anthropic pours another $20 million into AI safety group

Anthropic will pour another $20 million into Public First Action, the nonprofit organization advocating for safeguards on artificial intelligence.

The contribution, announced by the company Wednesday, brings the Claude-maker’s total funds given to the group to $40 million.

Public First Action is the policy arm of Public First, a super PAC backing candidates who support stronger guardrails on AI. Anthropic emphasized the latest contribution was made for the organization’s “public-education and policy mission,” and cannot be used to “influence” any federal, state or local election candidates.

AI firms and their executives are playing a larger role than ever in the midterms cycle, with the industry poised to be one of the elections’ top spenders.

Anthropic’s latest donation comes a week after recent campaign finance filings showed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million to the super PAC, while several company employees gave a combined $2.15 million over the last........

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