My estimate accounts for increased, adversarial lobbying by frontier AI corporations regardless as they get closer and closer to superintelligence.
I do not expect us being heavily funded to change that by a very significant degree.
We can already see right now that AI corporations are ramping up their lobbying and influence operations immensely, across the board. To name just a few examples:
My estimate accounts for increased, adversarial lobbying by frontier AI corporations regardless as they get closer and closer to superintelligence.
I do not expect us being heavily funded to change that by a very significant degree.
We can already see right now that AI corporations are ramping up their lobbying and influence operations immensely, across the board. To name just a few examples:
DC lobbyists received nearly $130M for work related to AI in 2025, an increase of 370% since the release of ChatGPT https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/ai-influence-spending-booms-signaling-monumental-clashes-ahead
Anti AI-regulation SuperPAC coordinated by Chris Lehane (chief OpenAI lobbyist), funded by OpenAI’s Greg Brockman and A16Z, raising more than $125M to spend on electoral races against pro-AI regulation candidates. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/ai-industry-super-pac-raises-campaign-money.html
Anthropic ramping up its own SuperPAC contributions. https://builtin.com/articles/super-pacs-ai-regulation-2026-midterms