AGI Politics - by Jason Hausenloy - The First Scattering

Yesterday, Marc Andreessen and Greg Brockman launched a super-PAC, "Leading The Future", reportedly with funding in the low hundreds of millions — which would put them in the same league as the biggest PACs. Today, Meta announced it would launch a California-focused one. Together, these vehicles could account for single-digit percentage points of all campaign spending in the 2026 midterms. These moves herald the beginning of an era of AGI politics. And we’re starting behind. For the past few years, my friends and I worked on “AGI policy”: the set of clever actions or policies governments could enact in an ideal world. The best ideas were grounded in implementation details—Which agency’s purview? How much money? But we abstracted away the politics of it all — how do you sell this policy in the current political environment? Who are the key decisionmakers, and how do we convince them? Going forward, more people should focus on “AGI politics” alongside ideation and implementation. Ultimat

Yesterday, Marc Andreessen and Greg Brockman launched a super-PAC, "Leading The Future", reportedly with funding in the low hundreds of millions — which would put them in the same league as the biggest PACs. Today, Meta announced it would launch a California-focused one. Together, these vehicles could account for single-digit percentage points of all campaign spending in the 2026 midterms. These moves herald the beginning of an era of AGI politics. And we’re starting behind. For the past few years, my friends and I worked on “AGI policy”: the set of clever actions or policies governments could