Loading the player… <p class="wp-block-paragraph">A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly. And the Guardrails Alliance, a new super PAC dedicated to supporting AI legislation, aims to leverage that discontent.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance on Thursday with backing from tech employees, labor unions, and other groups, according to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/technology/ai-super-pac-guardrails-alliance.html">The New York Times.</a></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Our fundamental belief here is that people still do have the power to stop this autocratic takeover of the Trump administration and the tech sector,” Thomas told the NYT. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom. The PAC has about $5 million at its disposal today and plans to raise $15 million this cycle — small potatoes compared to deep-pocketed adversaries like Leading the Future, which has more than $100 million from tech leaders like OpenAI President Greg Brockman. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Guardrails will buy ads to support Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate who became <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/ai-companies-are-spending-millions-to-thwart-this-former-tech-execs-congressional-bid/">Leading the Future’s first target</a> and is running in the primaries next week. On Thursday, Bores <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/AlexBores/status/2067585622613909862?s=20">shared an ad</a> featuring the parents of Adam Raine, the teenager who died by suicide after months of prolonged conversations with ChatGPT.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bores is also receiving support from another pro-legislation super PAC, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/anthropic-funded-group-backs-candidate-attacked-by-rival-ai-super-pac/">Public First Action</a>, which has backing from Anthropic. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While OpenAI has tried to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-greg-brockman-political-donations-super-pac-statement-leading-future-2026-6">distance itself</a> from Brockman’s donations, many employees are reportedly unconvinced, and several have voiced concerns on social media about Leading the Future’s attacks on Bores. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This year, tech workers have also mobilized to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/tech-workers-call-for-ceos-to-speak-up-against-ice-after-the-killing-of-alex-pretti/">demand their chiefs end contracts</a> with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and urge the Pentagon to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/tech-workers-urge-dod-congress-to-withdraw-anthropic-label-as-a-supply-chain-risk/">withdraw its designation of Anthropic</a> as a supply chain risk — a label critics say was imposed without due process in retaliation for Anthropic’s limits on its technology being used for mass surveillance and autonomous warfare. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“This is not about matching [Leading the Future] dollar for dollar,” Thomas said. “What this vehicle is meant to do is be a political home for people who are concerned about the way the anti-regulation AI tech sector is trying to manipulate elections.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">TechCrunch has reached out to the Guardrails Alliance. </p>
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