- United States
- Calif.
- Letter
Investigate the quid pro quo between Trump's administration and AI executives who donated millions to kill federal AI safety regulations. The pattern is too clear to ignore: money flowed in, and a critical public protection disappeared.
The Biden administration's AI reporting rule was designed to prevent dangerous accidents that could injure or kill people. Then Sam Altman's company donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., and nine days later Trump signed an executive order scrapping it. More donations followed — Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Elon Musk each contributed millions — and by December the rule was formally buried. These same executives are now demanding congressional action after high-profile AI hacking incidents. They paid to gut oversight, and the public is now paying the price.
This is textbook pay-to-play corruption. I want to know what you are doing to investigate it, and whether you will support legislation to restore mandatory AI safety reporting requirements. Your constituents deserve an answer.