Anthropic, the AI startup approaching a potentially record-breaking IPO, has donated $900,000 to Democratic Party committees and voter-turnout efforts in California days before the midterm elections.
\n\nThe New York Post reports that the donations show up in a filing made Friday with the California secretary of state. The California Democratic Party got the largest share, $525,000, and an independent statewide get-out-the-vote group received $150,000. Five county Democratic organizations, in San Francisco, San Mateo, Orange, Fresno and Siskiyou counties, each got $45,000.
\n\nThat $45,000 is Anthropic’s only contribution to the San Francisco Democratic Party this election cycle. The local party has been spending heavily on competitive state Senate races outside the city.
\n\nRobin Swanson, a California Democratic Party spokeswoman, told the San Francisco Standard the money will “help us elect Democrats up and down the ballot, defeat the Trump-backed Prop. 39, and continue our robust voter-protection programs across the state.”
\n\nAnthropic’s IPO will enrich leftist movers and shakers like Eric Schmidt, as well as create a huge cadre of wealthy adherents to Effective Altruism (EA), but AI’s impact politically could go much deeper.
\n\nBreitbart News recently reported that a right-leaning nonprofit group has warned that AI could become a single source…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
