The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particular AI PAC called Leading the Future. prospect.org?p=139608
Execs from companies like OpenAI pumped millions into Leading the Future, a Super PAC that is trying to buy politicians who will kill AI safeguards and bury anyone who fights back.
Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who's being bankrolled by them and who they're trying to stop.
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OMB Director Russell Vought has weaponized federal funding for disaster aid & climate resilience programs to punish states that didn’t back Trump in 2024. Those who stand to suffer the most from Vought’s vindictiveness—average Americans—are being treated as disposable pawns.
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