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A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight

TechCrunch AI Rebecca Bellan June 18, 2026
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight
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# AI Workers Are Launching Their Own Political Voice A group of tech workers is pooling small donations to create a political action committee called Guardrails, aiming to influence AI policy decisions from the inside. With $5 million in funding, they're trying to compete against the enormous political spending by major tech companies, which pour $100 million into shaping regulations. Essentially, people actually building AI systems want a seat at the table when rules are being written.

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

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