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NEW- follow @GuardrailsNow for how we're going to toxify AI pac $ in elections funded by Trump donors and make it possible to regulate AI
less than a week before the Dem primary in New York’s 12th congressional district, a new Super PAC emerges to support Alex Bores’ pro-regulation approach to AI:
Guardrails Alliance, a populist answer to corporate money in politics
w/ @teddyschleifer
nytimes.com/2026/06/18/techn…
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“A small number of AI billionaires are remaking all of American society to make themselves richer, and we’re all getting screwed,” -@RepCasar 🙌
This is both true and something I’ve seen Ds and Rs in every focus group in the U.S. in 2026 either say or nod their head in agreement
For everyone asking about 2028 candidates’ positions on AI: the most obvious one should be taking the other side of guys like Musk, Thiel & Altman:
“JD Vance got his Senate seat in the first place because California tech billionaires bought it for him,”
politico.com/news/2026/09/26…
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For everyone asking about 2028 candidates’ positions on AI: the most obvious one should be taking the other side of guys like Musk, Thiel & Altman:
“JD Vance got his Senate seat in the first place because California tech billionaires bought it for him,”
politico.com/news/2026/09/26…
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We're talking about Greg Brockman here, a core funder of @LeadingFutureAI -the super PAC opposing pro-AI regulation candidates.
The Dems they just endorsed should be running to the mic to disavow them right now:
@EmiliaSykesOH @RepHorsford @RepJoeMorelle @RepGregStanton
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s president and his wife gave $25 million to Trump’s super PAC — and three months later, a federal rule requiring AI companies to disclose their most dangerous experiments was withdrawn.
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
Leading the Future has announced a new batch of Senate races they’re spending in. While states like Michigan, Ohio, and Maine will decide control of the Senate, Leading the Future has decided to spend in less competitive races because they know how toxic their money is.
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Oh look, Leading the Future is spending more money... in yet another round of noncompetitive races: washingtonreporter.news/excl…
Democrats need to read Leading the Future's own memo: Not a lot to fear here. They are toxic and there are only votes to *gain* from rejecting them.
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lol @LeadingFutureAI spent $300k to elect Val Hoyle and she just cosponsored a superintelligence ban.
The writing is on the wall:
When it comes to AI policy: politicians have much more to fear from their voters than from AI super PACs.
AOC, nine other House Dems sign on to AI superintelligence ban dlvr.it/TVdWml
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
Today’s news that OpenAI hacked the Australian government is not an isolated incident. We’re releasing more than 30,000 logs that include activity from this hack and attempts against previously unknown targets.
In this data, we found rogue agent activity stretching back to at least March, two months earlier than was previously known. This activity continues as recently as last week, suggesting it may still be ongoing 🧵
Our blog: transluce.org/agent-activity
NYT: nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techn…
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
See the write-up below; seems like the best example yet of attackers scaling cyber operations with agents
* financially motivated; stole ~600k unexpired credit cards
* attack system coordinated a few harnesses, used inference via openrouter
* campaign was observed to use glm 5.2, deepseek v4 pro, deepseek v4.1 flash, and opus 4.6 (opus wasn't as well guardrailed as later models)
* attackers used minimal human nudging and input to keep the agents going, vibe-coding style
* agents mostly exploited non-sexy web app vulns
* agents showed impressive automation of human pentester intelligence; "each attack path was chosen by the harness in real time through extensive probing and exploitation attempts, resulting in dynamic and mostly different TTPs"
We have discovered a massive, ongoing criminal exploitation campaign using Cairn, an autonomous penetration-testing harness, and other AI agents to target hundreds of organizations and successfully breach and impact tens of them (at least). The image below shows just a few days of activity, with up to 25 organizations being attacked simultaneously at the peak.
our intreim report: gambit.security/blog-posts/a…
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
My new piece in @newrepublic: On AI, federal preemption will be what NAFTA was for globalization – a voter litmus test on who reached for water and who reached for gas when their jobs and communities were on fire.
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New and important take on "But China!" from friend and colleague, @hyams - spox for @GuardrailsNow and formed CEO of Indeed
The real AI threat isn’t China, it’s accelerationism
fortune.com/2026/09/22/us-ch…
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
Note that Max Rose who is pushing this left-populist critique of AI safety folks is also on the payroll of Leading The Future, the Marc Andreesen AI accelerationist superpac.
Aren’t the ai companies also the tech elites?
If ai is about to kill us all we should stop everything and everyone involved should go to jail
If it isn’t about to kill us all- we should federally regulate it.
Might be as simple as that
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
This is very good. Perhaps the best statement I’ve seen on AI from any Democratic politician over the last few months.
— Populist (tapping into widespread and bipartisan anger at tech leaders and billionaires) without shamelessly pandering
— Articulates how if this AI hyperscaling house of cards that’s propping up our very fragile economy all comes crashing down, it could materially impact everyday Americans’ finances/retirement planning (instead of dealing in abstractions)
— Highlights the high stakes without claiming AI is gonna kill us all
— Includes a call to action re: no bailouts for tech companies, including by reminding people about what happened in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 financial crisis
Just gotta figure out how to condense it, but a lot of good stuff to work with here.
New email from @AOC to her list with some of her most expansive comments yet on AI:
"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
New email from @AOC to her list with some of her most expansive comments yet on AI:
"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.
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Nice ad. Watch who the anti-reg tech CEOs are backing- that is almost definitely not your guy.
Mike Rogers:
- Is backed by Elon Musk
- "holds millions in tech investments that could benefit from the data center boom" (The Lever)
Fascinating to see Republicans run on AI safety.
New spot from the group Alliance for A Better Future backing Mike Rogers and using recent comments from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.
Rogers is probably the most vocal guardrails-minded GOP Senate nominee, and now gets air cover for it.
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
More than 100 Democratic operatives urge party leaders to reject AI cash thehill.com/policy/technolog…
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
Leading the Future has gotten quieter and less cartoonishly malevolent as of late, but they still are a significant deterrent to politicians wanting to become legislative leaders on AI.
Many legislators are still tempted to just keep their heads down, speak in generalities, and avoid the prospect of 7 or 8 figures in ad dollars crashing down on your race - which is of course why LTF came to exist in the first place.
It's meaningfully harder to take the rest of OpenAI's comments seriously about the importance of this unique policy window for AI safety when one of their executives has very significantly funded and continues affiliating with LTF.
I keep saying this but if you work at OpenAI and have concerns about AI risk you need to understand that your company’s superpac is one of the major proximate barriers to doing anything.
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Hey @openai, @GuardrailsNow is back again at your DC office this evening 👋👋👋 Enough posturing. Shut down Leading the Future PAC.
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Shaunna Thomas retweeted
Cautionary Tale for Democratic leaders: Newsom now has to make up for veto'ing what would have been the nations strongest AI safety law. Be on the right side of history and your own constituents: put Guardrails around AI + enforce laws that protect our safety.
Big scoop from @ChaseDiFelice and @JeremyBWhite: Newsom says he wants to take further action on AI safety before leaving office, including raising the possibility of a special session subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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