Jason Poulos

I voted today. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for @repauchincloss.bsky.social and wrote in @poulos.house. I won’t stop wanting a representative who’s there for us rather than his own ambitions, his donors, and Israel.

The now-reviled AI lobby has adopted the spending vehicle laundering strategy that AIPAC perfected.

AIPAC will "only" have dark money spending through their super PAC UDP as a disciplining tool against members of Congress who violate the quid pro quo.

Majority Democrats, which is profiled in this piece, is funded almost entirely by a single hedge-fund billionaire who is a charter school zealot and heavily invested in hyperscalers and AI data centers. Yet this group is referred to as "center-left."

The draft bill requires LLM developers to submit risk reports, security test results, and safety frameworks to the Dept. of Commerce. However, it creates a statutory exemption shielding all submitted info from FOIA requests.

Marc Andreesen is an intellectual founder of the Abundance movement, having devoted an entire chapter to it in his 2023 screed "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto." His political spending is geared towards installing weak federal frameworks for crypto (like the CLARITY Act) and AI.

One of the more outrageous parts of this story is how Gillibrand abandoned her legislative efforts to revive postal banking (through the Postal Banking Act) in favor of putting a regulatory patina on crypto. The argument that crypto 'democratizes finance' assumes access to digital technology.

"This cycle, the cryptocurrency and AI industries continued shelling out huge sums to target messages to Democratic voters and champion their favorites, much of it supporting centrists and opposing progressives."

The amount DSA would receive ($6.6M) from the estate of a socialist NYU prof. would go a long way towards org building. It's a fraction of the amt that pro-data center billionaire Stephen Mandel has donated to Majority Dems ($11M), one of several Abundance Dem groups. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/n...

The sole sponsor of this event, MD PAC, is almost entirely funded by hedge-fund founder Stephen Mandel, who gave $11M to MD PAC (73% of the total raised). Mandel is a benefactor of the charter school movement in CT and his Lone Pine Capital is heavily invested in AI infrastructure.

@repauchincloss.bsky.social claim that his vote for the Massie Amendment to zero out military transfers to Israel was about the US-Israel war on Iran makes no sense. He supported US strikes on Iran as late as Feb. 2026, falsely stating that Iran had no air defenses above 10K ft.

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Seems to have gone unnoticed that the owner of Boston's Wilbur Theatre quickly acquiesced to the demand of a pro-fascist group and canceled Mahmoud Khalil's book talk last week (the event was moved to Somerville).

If you're an alignment researcher at Anthropic, you can investigate "model welfare": Does an LLM have consciousness? Does it experience "spiritual bliss"? Does it get sad or distressed? Don't worry about the welfare of the humans who suffer the negative externalities of the AI industry!

It takes a lot less words and more moral fortitude to say abolish ICE.

Democrats should seek out more Blue Dogs to endorse swing district Republicans.

"some Fairshake donors no longer appear interested in bipartisanship." Can we get some centrist Dems on a Project Blueprint to rebuild the party's relationship to the crypto industry?

What does this mean? Chinese AI companies are arguably taking safety more seriously than American companies because they release open-weight models and are more transparent with technical documentation.

Democrats should not be formulating AI regulatory policy or messaging trying to win back tech oligarchs like Marc Andreessen. They are getting what they want from Republicans. We need a single federal AI Authority with the power to block or withdraw any deployment: poulos.house/issues/feder....

"3,000 people in Brookline voted for Jason Poulos, who was completely unknown name as of, I'd say, six or eight months ago."

The objective of AI companies is to maximize (future) shareholder value. The CEOs don't care about safety or the future of humanity. More skepticism from electeds, the media, and the public is warranted.

The AI industry is pushing a weak federal framework for AI safety regulation to override strong state laws, such as in CA, IL, and NY, that require safety and incident reporting protocols from AI developers.

"A spokesperson for US Representative Jake Auchincloss, too, referred to his primary opponent Jason Poulos, an AI researcher, as a 'DSA opponent.' Poulos is indeed a DSA member but wasn’t backed by the organization and saw that description as a 'fund-raising appeal.'"

Mass. taxpayers pitched in up to $72 million for building Gillette stadium in 2002 and the Kraft Group is currently refusing to pay Foxboro an invoiced $953,640 to renew the stadium's entertainment license.

"The shifting politics of crypto on the left poses a major dilemma for the Senate Democrats weighing whether to vote for the Clarity Act, the sweeping bill that would create a bespoke new regulatory framework for digital assets."

Johnson "argued Congress has already instituted AI guardrails." What guardrails? The Speaker's deference to AI companies to regulate themselves is a pitch for AI super PACs like Leading the Future to assist Republicans in the midterms.

Last year, Alphabet (Google) dropped its 2018 pledge to not use AI for developing weapons and surveillance tools, ostensibly so it could compete with Microsoft and Amazon for military and intelligence contracts.