Silicon Valley is seeking to block cumbersome AI regulation with a new fund backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz that will support AI-friendly politicians.
The new $100 million super PAC network, dubbed Leading the Future (LTF), will use campaign donations and digital ads to support friendly Democrats and Republicans on both the national and state level with an eye on the 2026 midterms. It will also oppose politicians that the group sees as holding back the AI industry.
“There is a vast force out there that’s looking to slow down AI deployment, prevent the American worker from benefiting from the U.S. leading in global innovation and job creation, and erect a patchwork of regulation,” said the group’s leaders Josh Vlasto and Zac Moffatt in a joint statement to WSJ. “This is the ecosystem that is going to be the counterforce going into next year.”
Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI were both previously supportive of a 10-year moratorium on states passing their own AI regulations that was proposed in the version of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed by the House earlier this year. The moratorium was killed in the Senate after facing bipartisan opposition.
“If we don’t have the right policies, we risk ceding the future of AI—and with it, America’s economic strength and national security,” McCune wrote.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
The pro-AI super PAC will also help counter the narrative of pro–AI regulation spread by well-known researchers, including “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton and his fellow Turing-award recipient Yoshua Bengio. Both have warned about the risks of more powerful AI.
Leading the Future will start its operations this year in New York, California, Illinois, and Ohio, according to a press release. Other LTF supporters are VC and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, AI software company Perplexity, and angel investor Ron Conway.
