Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI

Anthropic said on Thursday it is putting $20 million into a new super PAC operation that will oppose super PACs backed by OpenAI’s leaders and investors. The donation kicks off a new conflict between the rivals with this year’s midterm elections as the battleground, centered on whether to impose more safety guardrails on powerful A.I.

technology. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s co-founder and chief executive, formerly worked at OpenAI. Anthropic generally favors politicians who are more pro-regulation than OpenAI does. In a blog post the company warned that "vast resources have flowed to political organizations that oppose" A.I.

safety efforts and said, "The A.I. policy decisions we make in the next few years will touch nearly every part of public life," adding, "We don’t want to sit on the sidelines while these policies are developed." The contribution will fund efforts to elect federal lawmakers who favor more extensive A.I.

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