Public First Routes $2M Into Colorado Race Via Latino Victory Fund

Some will defend this as standard political practice — a justifiable means to getting an AI safety champion elected. I think that's the wrong instinct.

As I said when @vronirwin previously criticized Public First’s lack of donor transparency, I wish AI safety orgs held themselves to a higher standard.

It’s very hard to claim the moral high ground when using tactics like this — and it would not have been hard to disclose this transfer before election day so that voters can make up their own minds.

Read @vronirwin’s big new piece here: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/manny-rutinel-public-first-action-latino-victory-fund

Obscuring funding this way is not illegal. But it meant voters went to the polls without knowing that a group focused on AI policy, not Latino representation, was backing Rutinel.

https://www.transformernews.ai/p/manny-rutinel-public-first-action-latino-victory-fund