Greg Brockman
OpenAI co-founder backing anti-regulation AI super PAC in 2026 congressional races.
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Why is an OpenAI co-founder funding political ads that never mention AI?
Timeline for Greg Brockman
Co-backed the Leading the Future super PAC targeting pro-regulation midterm candidates
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: AI industry raises $125M v. regulators- What is Greg Brockman doing in the 2026 midterms?
- He is backing Leading the Future, an AI super PAC that funds congressional candidates opposing AI regulation, running ads on other issues to obscure the AI connection.Source: Event: AI industry funds Congress races
Background
Greg Brockman is a co-founder and former president of OpenAI who is backing Leading the Future, an AI super PAC that opposes AI regulation. The PAC runs congressional advertising on healthcare, immigration, and jobs without mentioning artificial intelligence, making the funding source and agenda invisible to viewers.
Brockman's involvement, alongside Andreessen Horowitz, positions Leading the Future as the industry's vehicle for electing members of Congress likely to block federal AI regulation, in direct competition with Anthropic-backed Public First Action, which favours regulation. The two PACs represent a proxy war within the AI industry over whether the US will regulate AI at the federal level before the technology matures further.
