AI-backed PAC puts up $3 million to elect Wiener to Congress

The people who run AI companies are not fools. They know how dangerous their technology is—and they also know how much money they can make from it. When Anthropic has its initial public offering, its top executives will be multi-billionaires, in the same class as the Zuckerbergs and the Thiels and the Bezoses and maybe even close to the Musks of the world. With that money, we all know, comes immense political power. The AI companies have a clear candidate Real, serious regulations on AI would, by definition, threaten those riches and that power. Sure, the head of Anthropic wants some rules. Modest federal regs that would make sure Anthropic still gets its trillion-dollar IPO (and maybe makes sure that none of the competitors can beat that company to the Stock Exchange bell) are a grand idea. A moratorium on data centers is not. The news broke today that a PAC funded in part by Anthropic donated $3 million to defeat Sup. Connie Chan for Congress. That money will go for