AI Super PACs Dump $79 Million in 2024 Midterms

AI-driven super PACs poured a record $79 million into 68 House and Senate races this cycle. Most cash hit early, highlighted by June's New York 12th Democratic primary. Public First poured $15 million and Leading the Future $8.1 million behind Alex Bores, who lost. By Oct. 26 Leading the Future had spent just $7.4 million on general elections despite $34 million in cash. Ben and Marc Andreessen and Greg and Anna Brockman fund Leading the Future. Leading the Future pushes light regulation and a single national AI standard. Public First, the rival network, backs stronger AI safeguards, using Jobs and Democracy for Democrats and Defending Our Values for Republicans. The biggest general-election bet, Darline Graham in South Carolina, fell to Annie Andrews. She lost despite $4.8 million from American Mission and Building the Future. Republicans like Pete Ricketts in Nebraska and Harriet Hageman in Wyoming won. But most GOP candidates backed by AI PACs lost. Democrats backed by Public First, such as Brian Poindexter in Ohio's 7th, generally held their seats. Bores, whose primary loss sparked the spending war, is now launching a nonprofit to raise $30 million before 2028.