亲AI超级PAC网络被指向内华达空壳公司输送数千万美元
WIRED查阅联邦竞选财务记录后报道,由硅谷投资人资助的亲AI超级PAC网络“Leading the Future”已筹集逾1.4亿美元,用于在中期选举中支持共和、民主两党的亲AI候选人。该网络下的Think Big与American Mission自去年以来向四家注册在内华达的有限责任公司支付了数千万美元,其中Lantern Production Consultants约获2000万美元,但这些公司登记的地址仅为邮政信箱、邮寄中心或连锁商店门店。竞选法律中心已向联邦选举委员会投诉,指其利用空壳公司隐瞒款项实际接收方;Leading the Future回应称遵守所有适用法律,并把投诉称为Public First、Anthropic等团体的“绝望之举”,Anthropic未回应置评请求,Public First则否认参与。
AI行业的政治捐款若经空壳公司流转,公众与监管者将难以看清资金去向,而美国中期选举结果可能影响未来AI监管取向。
The Spanish Springs shopping center in Sparks, Nevada, hosts many businesses, including a Spirit Halloween, a hearing aid supplier, and a Vietnamese restaurant. It’s also home to a consulting agency that’s received millions of dollars from one of the biggest pro-AI super PAC networks ahead of November’s midterm elections.
The problem is that the company—Lantern Production Consultants LLC—doesn’t seem to exist anywhere beyond a post office box in the Spanish Springs shopping complex.
Lantern Production Consultants has been paid around $20 million since last year by Think Big, part of a network of pro-AI super PACs funded by the Leading the Future PAC, for a wide array of services, including polling, digital advertising, research, and strategy, according to federal campaign finance records reviewed by WIRED. Backed by major AI investors, Leading the Future has taken a main role in supporting candidates who back what it calls “an AI innovation policy agenda.”
It is just one of four mysterious LLCs based out of Nevada that have received payments from super PACs in the Leading the Future PAC network, including Think Big and American Mission. The network, which is also based in Nevada, has raised over $140 million to influence political campaigns that align with AI-industry priorities in the midterms.
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