Bleeding The Future.

ChatGPT & Palantir built a SuperPAC “Leading The Future” to buy elections and rig the laws toward a Big Tech agenda: mass surveillance, replacing workers, and legal immunity when their AI causes harm. We are kicking their money out of our elections.

What They Want.

Leading the Future (LTF) is a Super PAC by OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and Marc Andreessen, among others. Modeled on the crypto lobby’s tactics during the 2024 election, LTF’s primary goal is to destroy AI regulation by any means. Their donors have tried to:

LTF is also a laboratory for high-tech propaganda. Watchdogs and journalists have caught them allegedly…

Kicking Them Out

The organizers of QuitGPT, the boycott campaign that inspired millions of people to delete ChatGPT to stop their political corruption, are fighting to kick ChatGPT out of our elections, too.

We have convened a coalition of 50+ grassroots organizations, including Sunrise, Indivisible, Third Act, Make the Road, Mijente, the Young People’s Alliance, and End Citizens United, to call on politicians to take a simple pledge: REJECT Leading the Future.

There’s no higher priority than making LTF toxic. This Super PAC is the worst of the worst: it’s the largest AI Super PAC, where the biggest Trump megadonors have pooled their money to advance the nastiest agenda.

This is the first major campaign mobilizing elected officials to reject money from the worst actors in Big AI. If you want to help, please sign up to learn about future actions and spread the word on social media. Call on your representatives to reject LTF money at bleedingthefuture.org/tracker.

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In Their Words

Super PACs like Leading the Future want policymakers to stand by while they automate our relationships, our jobs, and our humanity for the sake of profit. Bleeding the Future is a way for voters to fight back, holding the representatives we elected accountable to ensuring AI benefits Americans broadly, not just a handful of elites.

Sam Hiner, Executive Director, YPA

We cannot sit by and allow Big AI to turn our elections into proxy wars between AI companies competing for influence, data, and political access. Voters deserve campaigns driven by real people and their issues, not AI execs. Protecting democracy from AI overreach starts with keeping AI money out of our leaders’ hands, which is why we must defeat OpenAI and Palantir’s SuperPAC.

Voters of Tomorrow

Leading the Future’s Big Tech funders have spent years promising to eliminate tens of millions of jobs, permanently damage our natural resources, and endanger an entire generation of young people. The companies funding Leading the Future — OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z — aren’t just enabling Trump; they are standing in the way of progress. This campaign and pledge will help us end Big Tech’s anti-democratic influence over our politics and help us elect a Congress capable of protecting the people they serve.

Sacha Howarth, Executive Director, Tech Oversight Project

Leading the Future is trying to buy our elections so that billionaires can force data centers, AI-powered mass surveillance and war on all of us. At a time when the American people are rising up against Big Tech like never before, no politician should be taking a single dollar from them. By signing the Bleeding the Future pledge, candidates can prove that they stand with the people and not the billionaires trying to lead us into their dystopian vision of the future.

Colin McGlynn, AI Policy Advisor, Demand Progress

Oligarchy is antithetical to democracy. Leading the Future is a name that should be taken literally when we’re dealing with the new tech-oligarch class. These are people driven by a political philosophy that sees our democracy as an obstruction not an aspiration. Taking their money is not simply at your own peril, but democracy’s as well.

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Our members are raring to fight back against the AI industry, and this campaign is a key first step. Every politician will have to choose: either you work for people, or you work for ChatGPT. You cannot claim to stand against ICE while benefiting from the AI companies that supply its surveillance tech.

Aru Shiney-Ajay, Executive Director, Sunrise Movement

AI money—like oil money before it—is poisoning our politics. We need to be able to think and act rationally on the threats our nation faces, and we can’t do it when our politicians are beholden to oligarchs who hand them cash.

Bill McKibben, Founder, Third Act

Big Tech billionaires are spending millions of dollars on our elections with one goal in mind: upending our democracy. By funneling money into races, tech oligarchs like Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale are attempting to buy out Congress to carry out an agenda that puts working-class families last.

Sara Cullinane, Make the Road Action

Who's Signed

Organizations, candidates, and elected officials who've taken the pledge.

Senator Edward J. Markey
Edward J. Markey
U.S. Senator · Massachusetts
"Congress needs the political will to fight Big AI and pass legislation like my AI Civil Rights Act and my Youth AI Privacy Act. And we won’t find that willpower unless we reject every penny from Leading the Future and the MAGA tech oligarchs who fund it."
Representative Greg Casar
Greg Casar
U.S. Representative · TX-35
"In the fight between AI billionaires and the people they’re screwing over, Democrats need to stand clearly on the side of the people. We must reject support from the billionaires trying to stop all AI regulation."
Representative Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan
U.S. Representative · NY-18
"The Big Tech oligarchs behind Leading the Future only care about their profits. They don’t care if AI takes our jobs, destroys our communities’ water supply, or if their models commit felony-level cyberattacks. The American people are pushing back against them – that’s why they’re trying to buy our elections, to silence us. I’m proud to be one of the first to sign onto this effort, to stand and fight for the American people and keep the rich and powerful from rigging the rules to get even richer."
Angela Gonzales-Torres
Angela Gonzales-Torres
Candidate, U.S. House · CA-34
"California’s 34th congressional district is dealing with the aftermath of the recent Lineage Logistics warehouse fire, and Leading the Future, with its new Trump-tied data center campaign, will bring similar disasters to communities across America. Our local air and water here have been toxified by corporate projects that would never be built in a more affluent part of the city. Any elected official who accepts Leading the Future Super PAC money has sided with those profiting off our pain and problems — but we know there is a better way forward."
Tom Perriello
Tom Perriello
Candidate, U.S. House · VA-5
"The true architects of AI are begging policy makers to take existential and other risks seriously, while some C Suites profiting from what they created are spending disgusting amounts of dark money to drown out those warnings, prevent any guardrails and accountability. Given that AI will likely become the most powerful tools humans have ever created, voters are united in wanting leaders with the common sense to set guardrails and accountability and the courage to face down intimidation by Big Tech PACs."
Scott Wiener
Scott Wiener
Candidate, U.S. House · CA-12
"AI must serve humanity and not vice versa. That’s what this fight is about, and it’s why we’ve worked so hard to pass smart, effective laws regulating AI to protect public health and safety. The people behind “Leading the Future” have opposed all of our efforts to regulate AI in the public interest. They want no laws in place to protect the public. They are spending for the worst possible version of the future: unlimited job loss, surveillance tech, autonomous lethal weapons, and total leeway to do whatever they want, no matter how dangerous. Together, we will stop LTF and deliver a better future: where the people control AI and not the other way around."
Brad Lander
Brad Lander
Candidate, U.S. House · NY-10
"The American people do not want a handful of tech oligarchs spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying our elections so they can block rules to hold AI companies accountable when their models break laws, eliminate jobs, threaten privacy, addict people, or burn fossil fuels. I’m proud to sign on the Bleeding the Future pledge and I will reject every penny from the super PACs trying to stop important AI regulations. In Congress, I’m determined to pass strong safeguards into law and make sure the American people have a true say in the future of AI."
Daniel Biss
Daniel Biss
Candidate, U.S. House · IL-9
"Illinois is sick of Leading the Future and its Big Tech megadonors pushing AI-powered propaganda and trying to buy our elections. They even tried to pass a bill in the Illinois Legislature to give themselves legal immunity if ChatGPT kills thousands of people. But they are failing. I know from experience that when we build a critical mass of people to stand up for what is right, oligarchs and special interests like Leading the Future can be beaten."
Adam Hamawy
Adam Hamawy
Candidate, U.S. House · NJ-12
"If politicians are serious about protecting people from Big AI, they can't take a penny from Leading the Future. They're funded by Trump's biggest tech megadonors and doing everything they can to prevent Congress from acting on one of the most important issues of our time. We need to stop this small handful of radical tech billionaires from destroying jobs, polluting our environment, and selling their technology for surveillance and war."
William Lawrence
Candidate, U.S. House · MI-07