As software has eaten up the world, it has become an integral part of every industry and almost every endeavor in our society. As a result, governments around the world are becoming increasingly interested in the implications of this technology and how to regulate it.
As we saw with Internet regulation in the 1990s, high-quality regulation can enable the industry to thrive while protecting consumers. However, as we saw with nuclear energy regulation, misguided and politicized regulation can kill the industry and dramatically worsen problems like climate change.
We believe that the advancement of technology is critical to the future of humanity, so we will, for the first time, engage in politics by supporting candidates who specifically align with our technology-related vision and values.
While Big Tech is well represented in Washington, D.C., their interests are often at odds with a positive technological future because they are more concerned with regulatory capture and maintaining their monopolies. As a result, tech startups need a voice.
We are nonpartisan, single-issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic, technology-enabled future, we support them. If they want to stifle important technologies, we are against them.
Specifically, we believe:
- America's best days are coming if we maintain our global technological leadership. The main thing that can undermine this is misguided regulatory policy.
- Artificial intelligence has the potential to lift all of humanity to an unprecedented standard of living, and it must not be stifled in its infancy. We can do this by requiring AI to act within the law and the rules of our society without regulating mathematics, blundering, R&D methods, and other misguided ideas.
- Decentralized technologies from the blockchain/crypto/web3 ecosystem will create a fairer and more inclusive economy than the centralized technologies that enable monopoly in web 2 and the financial system of the industrial age. However, we need clear regulation to root out bad actors who exploit technology for nefarious purposes.
- We are entering a golden age of biological research. AI is maturing at a time when life sciences and healthcare are also becoming data-driven disciplines, with both industries increasingly relying on AI and engineering, with its power and opportunity to radically change how diseases are diagnosed, treated, managed and healthcare is delivered. . However, our organizational system and operations are built on a model of crude industrial revolution era technologies. As a result, we risk harming far more people than we save through the “safety” measures we take.
Every penny we donate will go to supporting like-minded candidates and opposing candidates who aim to kill America's advanced technological future.
