re: Who’s Orchestrating The AI-Hysteria Campaign?

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My question on this the whole time is we never got a vote on this. Yet the AI companies trained the models on all available human knowledge. And I have to pay to use it.

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Anyone who has ever used the internet should get a stock share(s) of AI developers. A mini mutual fund.

Who are Anthropic big investors? Who sits on their board?

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Have you looked at the big investors in Anthropic? Who sits on their board? It's a who's who of Democratic Party financiers.

When Anthropic goes public, hundreds of paternalist authoritarian Democrats will become millionaires. And they will put hundreds of millions into the campaigns of Democratic politicians, Democratic NGO's, and Democratic media organizations.

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Grok

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Which major investors, board members, and executives of Anthropic are also major Democratic Party donors / bundlers?

Reed Hastings (board), Dario and Daniela Amodei (CEO/President and co-founders), and early investor Dustin Moskovitz are the clearest overlaps. Other co-founders and some institutional backers lean Democratic in reported giving; several board members and large strategic investors do not.

Anthropic is a public-benefit corporation. Its board (as of 2026 reporting) has included Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei (chair), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Jay Kreps (Confluent), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Vas Narasimhan (Novartis), and Chris Liddell (former Microsoft/GM CFO and Trump White House deputy chief of staff). A Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a majority of seats. Major outside capital has come from Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Nvidia, Microsoft, ICONIQ, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Spark, Menlo, Coatue, GIC, and others. Early funding also included Dustin Moskovitz-linked vehicles and (later seized/sold) FTX-related stakes.

Executives and co-founders

Dario Amodei has given six-figure sums to Democratic candidates and committees (Biden, Hillary Clinton, DNC) and endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024. In 2026 he gave $1 million to Public First, a super PAC focused on AI regulation. Reports describe him and several co-founders as registered Democrats with no recorded Republican donations in public FEC summaries.

Daniela Amodei has a documented history of donations to Democrats including Harris, Biden, and Obama. Other co-founders (Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Chris Olah) appear in employee-donation analyses as part of a workforce whose itemized federal giving is overwhelmingly Democratic; some (including McCandlish) appear on AnthroPAC filings. The company itself has given tens of millions to Public First Action. Employee giving has also flowed to Democratic state and federal candidates, often clustered around AI-safety or California races.

These personal amounts are large for individuals but far smaller than classic mega-donor/bundler scale.

Board members

Reed Hastings is a long-standing Democratic mega-donor and past bundler. Public reporting includes a $7 million 2024 contribution to a Harris-aligned super PAC, a $2 million 2025 gift to Gavin Newsom’s California redistricting committee, multi-million gifts to House Majority PAC and Senate Majority PAC, and earlier bundling for Hillary Clinton (2016). Lifetime tracked political giving is frequently cited in the tens of millions, heavily Democratic. He joined Anthropic’s board in 2025.

Yasmin Razavi’s firm Spark Capital has shown Democratic-leaning individual giving in recent cycles, but she is not reported as a top-tier personal mega-donor. Jay Kreps and Vas Narasimhan do not appear as major partisan donors in the sources reviewed. Chris Liddell’s public record is the opposite: senior role in the first Trump White House.

Major investors

Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook co-founder) was an early Anthropic investor; he later moved the stake into a nonprofit vehicle. He is one of the largest individual Democratic donors in the country: reports cite $135 million+ lifetime to Democrats and $0 to Republicans in some tallies, including tens of millions to Future Forward and Harris-aligned vehicles in 2024. His Coefficient Giving / Open Philanthropy network has also funded AI-policy and EA-aligned groups.

Reid Hoffman (Greylock) is repeatedly listed among Anthropic’s investor-orbit Democratic mega-donors ($100 million+ lifetime figures appear in advocacy summaries). Eric Schmidt’s family office was an early investor; Schmidt has a long record as a Democratic donor and adviser. Sam Bankman-Fried’s $500 million 2022 stake (later sold in bankruptcy) came with prior Democratic giving in the tens of millions. Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network acquired smaller stakes via the FTX estate sale and are major funders of left-of-center nonprofits.

Large strategic investors (Amazon, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft) and most later-round VCs/sovereign funds are not themselves partisan “Democratic Party donors.” Individual partners at firms such as Sequoia or Lightspeed vary.

Caveats

“Bundler” is a specific role (raising from others for a campaign). Hastings has a documented bundling history; Moskovitz and the Amodeis are primarily large direct donors. FEC itemized data, OpenSecrets, and news compilations are the sources; dark-money 501(c)(4)s and state-level gifts are only partly visible. Advocacy reports (e.g., Bull Moose Project’s “$43 Billion Machine”) aggregate founder/board/investor/employee giving at $600 million+ with a 99.8% Democratic share; those figures mix personal, employee, and affiliated giving and should be treated as estimates, not audited FEC totals.

Company PAC activity (Public First) has supported both Democratic and some Republican candidates who favor AI-safety regulation, so corporate spending is not purely partisan even when individual giving is.

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Note: In Grok link are links to 73 sources.

it’s pretty simple what is going on.

The AI and Tech Giants have overspent and gotten very little return, with very little return on the horizon. So they are trying to roll back their R&D and Capex under the guise of safety concerns and government regulations so that their stock does not collapse.

Investors realize that these idiots have spent so much money on something that will not return nearly the amount of money spent to develop it, and it calls into question the leadership of these companies.

If the narrative is the government and safety are causing these companies to slow down AI development, then the Corporate leadership teams don’t face the brunt of investor fallout.

The AI bubble is real and AI development companies are trying to create a narrative that allows the bubble to slowly break without bringing them all down.

stories like this one are all over the globe
UBER and AI

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In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said it's hard to draw a connection between the company's rising use of Claude Code and innovations meant to serve consumers.


That link is not there yet," he said.

"Maybe implicitly there's more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and 'Okay now we're actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features.'"

The comments follow reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. It's the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.

"If you're not actually able to draw a direct line to how [many] useful features and functionality you're shipping to your users, that trade becomes harder to justify," Macdonald said.

Uber isn't the only company facing this issue. Microsoft earlier this month reportedly began canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses, according to The Verge, instead moving engineers toward using GitHub Copilot CLI. A number of other business leaders have walked back their initial bullish AI views.

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn last year reversed his outlook on AI, saying he doesn't see the tech replacing the tasks his employees perform.

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if the narrative is AI is so incredibly strong and useful, the government is having to reel us in, then there’s still value to the AI development proposition.

But that value proposition is not being supported by the marketplace.

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Some people would happily watch the world burn if it put five more dollars in their bank accounts

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Which explains our immigration problem.

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Yet that is exactly what you’re doing because OMB. Pathetic

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Humans have been expressing concerns about AI for nearly a hundred years before AI was even invented.

Your reply makes no sense.

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The AI and Tech Giants have overspent and gotten very little return, with very little return on the horizon. So they are trying to roll back their R&D and Capex under the guise of safety concerns and government regulations so that their stock does not collapse.

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Massively overspend on labor. and compute. Just check the salaries they've been offering and how long their contracts with NVIDIA go out.

There is NO way to do layoffs in the middle of an IPO. So, if they get a "pause" it's perfect air cover to start hacking away at costs, get them out of contracts (ala covid force majure), and still collect a payday before the bubble breaks.

It's not even clever. But plenty of parrots are eating it up.

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Selling out to technogarchs is a bipartisan goal.

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Yep.

D: "Government needs to regulate AI because it's owned by billionaires and dangerous"
R: "Government needs to regulate AI because we need it for defense and we have beat the chy-knees."

It's not hard to see the commonality here.

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Humans have been expressing concerns about AI for nearly a hundred years before AI was even invented.

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Right. And some folks seem to think that considering the possibilities of this extremely fast moving tech is bad cause...china?

It's a bit heartwarming to see bipartisan backlash from us powerless nobody citizens that no one with any power cares about, though.

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It's a bit heartwarming to see bipartisan backlash from us powerless nobody citizens that no one with any power cares about, though.

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Still outnumbered by the idiots wiling to support the establishment.