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37 New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit AI: 'the Guardrails Alliance'

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · today 07:34 EDT

New Super PAC Aims to Rally Tech Workers to Help Limit AI:  'the Guardrails Alliance'

"A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly," reports TechCrunch.

Hoping to leverage that discontent is a new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance. The New York Times reports that it launched Thursday with backers that included tech employees and labor unions:

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 mil

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