Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has $100M and targets midterms - The Washington Post

Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors and executives are backing a political committee created to support “pro-AI” candidates in the 2026 midterms and to quash a philosophical debate that has divided the tech industry on the risk of artificial intelligence overpowering humanity. Leading the Future, a super PAC founded this month, will also oppose candidates perceived as slowing down AI development. The group said it has initial funding of more than $100 million and backers including Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI; his wife, Anna Brockman; and influential venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election and has ties to White House AI advisers. The super PAC aims to reshape Congress to be more supportive of major industry players such as OpenAI, whose ambitions include the construction of trillions of dollars’ worth of energy-guzzling data centers and policies that protect scraping copyrighted material from the web to create AI

Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors and executives are backing a political committee created to support “pro-AI” candidates in the 2026 midterms and to quash a philosophical debate that has divided the tech industry on the risk of artificial intelligence overpowering humanity. Leading the Future, a super PAC founded this month, will also oppose candidates perceived as slowing down AI development. The group said it has initial funding of more than $100 million and backers including Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI; his wife, Anna Brockman; and influential venture capital firm