The business model of American politics is clear, and it is clearly corrupt.

The strategy of this corruption was perfected in 2024 by crypto super PACs : take out a couple of prominent opponents, support a couple of rising supporters, and recruit, if you can, a presidential candidate to support your view. The crypto super PACs leveraged that strategy to flip crypto policy in America in one election cycle from imperfect but sensible to essentially lawless . Now, with that strategy, AI super PACs are standing up hundreds of millions of dollars, intending to block the regulation of AI. If things stay as they are, then just as AI approaches the level of capability that many fear poses existential risks to humanity, we will have disabled our government from doing anything about it.

Super PACs have been a part of American politics since 2010, the year the Supreme Court decided Citizens United vs. FEC . Most think that decision was what gave us super PACs.…