Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election

Bernie Sanders Warns Billionaires Are Buying Elections As Pro-AI Super PACs Target Candidates Advocating AI Safety, Transparency: 'Cannot Be Alllowed' - Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)

Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that wealthy tech investors and pro-AI super PACs, including groups backed by Meta and Trump allies, are poised to spend hundreds of millions in the 2026 elections to defeat candidates pushing for AI safety and transparency, arguing that billionaires must not be allowed to buy elections.

Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election

"Super PAC aims to drown out AI critics in midterms," the Washington Post reported in August, noting its intial funding over $100 million from "some of Silicon Valley's most powerful investors and executives" including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, his wife, and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The group's goal was "to quash a philosophical debate that has divided the tech industry on the risk of artificial intelligence overpowering humanity," acc…