A new super‑PAC network called Leading the Future is being launched with more than $100 million in backing from Silicon Valley figures to shape U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) policy ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Silicon Valley Pours $100M Into AI Super‑PAC, Echoing Crypto Industry Lobbying Playbook
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According to the Wall Street Journal, backers include venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, Openai president Greg Brockman (with his wife), Perplexity, Joe Lonsdale and angel investor Ron Conway, and organizers say the network will deploy campaign donations, digital ads and allied federal and state PACs plus a 501(c)(4) to promote industry‑friendly AI policies and oppose candidates viewed as likely to impose restrictive rules. Leading the Future says it does not seek total deregulation but opposes efforts to preemptively limit AI deployment, aims to begin work later this year in battleground states including New York, California, Illinois and Ohio, and plans to support both Democrats and Republicans; organizers frame the effort as countering a push for stringent, preemptive regulation and as part of a broader industry move to influence policymaking after Fairshake’s recent crypto‑focused campaign efforts.
