“领导未来”是支持大赦国际的最大超级人民联盟网络，正在远离中期选举，银行中还有2 000多万美元，还有数十名来自过道两侧的成功国会候选人。
乍一看，这看起来像一个胜利。 细节讲述了另一个故事。 这些捐款绝大多数投给了安全的候选人，" 领导未来 " 组织参与的少数几场风险更大的竞赛的结果表明，其组织选举的计划已经落空。
“领导未来”最初于2025年8月进入现场，誓言“反对扼杀创新的政策”，由于硅谷一些最大的技术亿万富翁——包括安德烈森·霍罗维茨、Palantir联合创始人Joe Lonsdale和OpenAI的Greg Brockman——以及主要的政治战略家，它拥有约1亿美元的战栗。
它被设计成一个“结构化的生态系统”，它设定了一个目标，即“在2026年选举周期及以后有最大的灵活性”。 网络由501(c)(4)s组成，联邦和州级超级PAC面向过道两侧：美国使命主要给予共和党人，而思大则主要给予民主党人。 它的结构和重叠的战略家们迅速与费尔沙克(Fairshake)进行了比较，费尔沙克是2024年大选中占据主导地位的庞大，资金充足的亲Crypto超级PAC网络。
」技术监督计划执行董事Sacha Haworth告诉WIRED。 “其目的是欺负立法者默许，恐吓他们不要对AI安全或技术行业条例束手无策。”
" 领导未来 " 组织没有答复提出评论意见的请求。
去年晚些时候，“领导未来”组织利用前Palantir工程师和纽约第12国会选区的州立法者民主党人Alex Bores在AI安全平台上运行，花费数百万美元进行攻击广告，反对他的主要投标。
称 Haworth, “他们完全期望埋葬他，把他的头戴在一根钉子上，相反，博里斯的候选资格成为了相互竞争的AI哲学之间的一场引人注目的代理战争，提升了他的知名度和纲领。 由Anthropic提供大量财政支持的亲AI安全网络公共第一，虽然博雷斯没有获胜，但他却在拥挤的初级赛场中排名第二
" 领导未来 " 仅在初选中就花费了约2 600万美元的独立支出。 但开支在进入大选时逐渐减少，因为网络总共减少了约1 000万美元，同时绝大多数支持候选人参加安全竞选。 其资金也减少，该网络报告第二和第三季度的捐款为零。
策略似乎也有所转变，(一个NBC出口民调发现，56%的选民称 AI和数据中心在他们的投票中发挥了"主要"作用。
支持安全候选人，“他们正试图向即将上任的国会议员施舍。”
"大众第一行动称"联合创始人，期中节目标志着AI安全性获得胜利。 称布拉德·卡森。 “这是对AI行业反监管努力的粉碎打击
带领未来进入的更危险的比赛结果并不大。
其最大的赌注之一是已故参议员林西·格雷厄姆的妹妹达琳·格雷厄姆(Darline Graham)，他当时是一名现任竞选南卡罗来纳州任期满期的竞选者。 Graham因热情支持AI和数据中心扩张，从她的民主对手安妮·安德鲁斯那里获得了Moniker“数据中心Darline”。 美国使团向格雷厄姆捐赠了200多万美元，最终在1998年最后一次选举民主党议员的州以46.5%的得失。
在"领导未来"所权衡的其他掷球大赛中，几乎都通过美国使命超级PAC支持共和党候选人。 民主佛罗里达州代表Jared Moskowitz的连任活动是例外，莫斯科维茨以13000票战胜挑战者斯科特·辛格，前博卡拉顿市长。
在北卡罗来纳州第1国会选区，通过美国使团领导未来(Lauri Buckhout)支持共和党陆军上校(Laurie Buckhout)，他于2025年在总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的领导下担任负责网络政策的国防部助理秘书，在她的小学期间。 Guardrails Alliance是AI安全网络的另一位玩家，支持她的对手民主党人唐·戴维斯，他之前曾共同提出法案，将限制数据中心开发的税收赠与。 戴维斯赢了
领导未来组织(Leader the Future)也支持了退休的战斗老兵，保守派评论家亚伦·弗林特(Aaron Flint)，前共和党代表瑞安·津克(Ryan Zinke)的州长，他正在蒙大拿州第一国会选区竞选。 弗林特向他的民主党对手萨姆·福斯塔格(Sam Forstag)让步，他是一名民主党野地消防员，他得到了包括亚历山德拉·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯在内的主要进步派的支持，并主张严格联邦对AI的监督。 (美联社尚未宣布赛事。
佛罗里达州美国使命(American Mission Florida)是领导未来网络的州级超级PAC，获得300万美元支持共和党州长候选人拜伦·唐纳德斯。 虽然唐纳德斯和对手大卫·乔利都对AI安全问题采取了细微的处理方法，但他们在数据中心扩张问题上分歧很大，唐纳德斯反对全州禁止或暂停数据中心。
在星期二晚上之后，硅谷将会为人们所期待的，民主党人发誓要把大科技老板带到国会山参加听证会。 Ron Wyden参议员在X上写了“Subpoeanas”
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Leading the Future, the biggest pro-AI super PAC network, is walking away from the midterm elections with just over $20 million still in the bank and a roster of dozens of successful congressional candidates from both sides of the aisle.
At first glance, that looks like a win. The details tell another story, though. The donations went overwhelmingly to safe candidates, and the results in the small handful of riskier races that Leading the Future got involved with indicate that its plans to shape the election fell flat.
When Leading the Future first entered the scene in August 2025 vowing to “oppose policies that stifle innovation," it had a war chest of around $100 million thanks to some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech billionaires—including Andreessen Horowitz, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman—and was led by major political strategists.
Designed as a “structured ecosystem,” it set a goal of having ”maximum flexibility to engage in the 2026 election cycle and beyond.” The network is made up of 501(c)(4)s, and federal and state super PACs catering to both sides of the aisle: American Mission largely gives to Republicans, while Think Big largely gives to Democrats. Its structure and overlapping strategists quickly drew comparisons to Fairshake, a massive, well-funded pro-crypto super PAC network that dominated in the 2024 election.
“They came out guns ablazing, saying be afraid, we are going to spend our millions to influence not only how lawmakers legislate us but also against you in your primaries and in your re-election,” Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project, tells WIRED. ”The purpose of that was to bully lawmakers into acquiescence, intimidate them into not sticking their necks out on AI safety or tech industry regulation at all.”
Leading the Future did not respond to requests for comment.
Late last year, Leading the Future took on Democrat Alex Bores, a former Palantir engineer and state lawmaker running in New York’s 12th congressional district on an AI safety platform, spending millions of dollars in attack ads against his primary bid.
“They fully expected to bury him, put his head on a spike and parade it around as proof that they could,” says Haworth. Instead, Bores’ candidacy became a high-profile proxy war between competing AI philosophies, boosting his profile and platform. The pro-AI safety network Public First, which has significant financial backing from Anthropic, spent $15 million boosting Bores’ candidacy. Though Bores didn’t win, he came second in a crowded primary field to another candidate,Micah Lasher, who campaigned on tech accountability and AI safety.
Leading the Future spent about $26 million in independent expenditures on the primaries alone. But spending tapered off as it headed into the general election, as the network dropped about $10 million in total while overwhelmingly backing candidates in safe races. Its funding also dropped off, with the network reporting zero donations in the second and third quarters.
The strategy seems to have shifted around the same time that stark polling began coming back showing widespread distrust of Big Tech and cronyism in Washington, DC. (An NBC exit poll found that 56 percent of voters said AI and data centers played a “major” role in their vote.)
Backing safe candidates was, simply put, “an influence play,” says Haworth. ”They're trying to ingratiate themselves with incoming members of Congress.”
The co-founder of Public First Action says that the midterms marked a victory for AI safety. “Voters in both parties delivered the same verdict tonight,” says Brad Carson. “This is a crushing blow to the AI industry’s anti-regulatory efforts to buy a Congress that would look the other way.”
Results weren’t great in the riskier races that Leading the Future jumped into.
One of its biggest bets was on Darline Graham, the sister of the late senator Lindsey Graham, who was an incumbent running to serve a full term in South Carolina. Graham earned the moniker “Data Center Darline” from her Democratic opponent Annie Andrews due to her enthusiastic support of AI and data center expansion. American Mission donated more than $2 million to Graham, who ultimately lost with 46.5 percent in a state that last elected a Democrat to the Senate in 1998.
Of the other toss-up House races that Leading the Future weighed in on, almost all were in support of Republican candidates through the American Mission super PAC. The exception was Democratic Florida representative Jared Moskowitz’s re-election campaign, which it funded through Think Big. Moskowitz won by 13,000 votes against challenger Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton.
In North Carolina’s 1st congressional district, Leading the Future through American Mission backed Republican Laurie Buckhout, a retired Army colonel who served as an assistant secretary of defense working on cyber policy under president Donald Trump in 2025, in her primary. Guardrails Alliance, another player in the AI safety network, backed her opponent, Democrat Don Davis, who previously co-sponsored a bill which would limit tax giveaways for data center development. Davis won.
Leading the Future also backed Aaron Flint, a retired combat veteran, conservative commentator, and former state director for Republican representative Ryan Zinke, who was running in Montana’s first congressional district. Flint conceded to his Democratic opponent Sam Forstag, a Democratic wildland firefighter who landed endorsements from major progressives including Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and advocated for strict federal oversight of AI. (The Associated Press has yet to call the race.)
American Mission Florida, a state-level super PAC in the Leading the Future network, got $3 million in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds. While both Donalds and opponent David Jolly took nuanced approaches to the AI safety issue, they diverged strongly on the issue of data center expansion, with Donalds opposing statewide bans or moratoriums on data centers.
After Tuesday night, Silicon Valley will be bracing for what’s expected to be a reckoning over the expansive power and freedom they’ve enjoyed thus far during Trump’s second term. Democrats have vowed to bring Big Tech bosses to Capitol Hill for hearings. Senator Ron Wyden signaled what's to come in a pithy statement on X. “Subpoeanas,” he wrote.
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