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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Silicon Valley's $100M Bet on AI Politics

Why Tech Titans Are Mobilizing for the 2026 Elections

์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์˜ AI ์ •์น˜ ๋กœ๋น„: 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋ฐฐํŒ…
ํ…Œํฌ ๊ฑฐ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด 2026๋…„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์›€์ง์ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ด์œ 

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ : https://forms.gle/6a6ou68a2YyLvnaMA

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๋ฌธ์˜ : https://open.kakao.com/me/insightsalon

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Silicon Valley is entering the 2026 U.S. midterm elections with over $100 million in political war chests. Their goal: protect the AI industry from what they call "over-regulation" and shape future policies. At the forefront is a new super-PAC network, Leading the Future, supported by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz.

์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” AI ์‚ฐ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ "๊ณผ๋„ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ"๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๊ณ  ์ •์ฑ… ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด 2026๋…„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ์— 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํ”ˆAI ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ทธ๋ ‰ ๋ธŒ๋ก๋จผ๊ณผ ๋ฒค์ฒ˜์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—… ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์„ผ ํ˜ธ๋กœ์œ„์ธ ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์Šˆํผ PAC ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์ธ Leading the Future๊ฐ€ ์„ ๋ด‰์— ์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This move mirrors Fairshake, a crypto-focused PAC that helped defeat regulation-heavy candidates in past elections. Leading the Future is positioning itself as the pro-innovation voice in a growing bipartisan debate over AI's future. Their target? Policies seen as stifling innovation and empowering regulators over engineers.

์ด ์›€์ง์ž„์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ๊ทœ์ œ ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝํŒŒ ํ›„๋ณด๋“ค์„ ๊บพ์€ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ PAC 'ํŽ˜์–ด์…ฐ์ดํฌ(Fairshake)'์™€ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Leading the Future๋Š” AI์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ์ดˆ๋‹น์  ๋…ผ์Ÿ ์†์—์„œ ์นœ(่ฆช)ํ˜์‹ ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•˜๋ ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๊ฒจ๋ƒฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ? ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์–ต๋ˆ„๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทœ์ œ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ํž˜์„ ์‹ค์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์ •์ฑ…๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  1. Super PAC (์Šˆํผ PAC)
    An independent political group that can raise unlimited funds but cannot coordinate directly with candidates.
    โ†’ ํ›„๋ณด์ž์™€ ์ง์ ‘ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •์น˜ ์กฐ์ง

  2. AI Regulation Debate (AI ๊ทœ์ œ ๋…ผ์Ÿ)
    Ongoing discussions on how to control the risks of AI while fostering innovation.
    โ†’ AI์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์  ๋…ผ์˜

  3. Fairshake (ํŽ˜์–ด์…ฐ์ดํฌ)
    A crypto-funded super PAC that helped sway past elections by backing pro-crypto candidates.
    โ†’ ์นœ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ํ›„๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋‚œ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•œ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ์Šˆํผ PAC

  4. Patchwork Regulation (๋ˆ„๋”๊ธฐ ๊ทœ์ œ)
    A fragmented legal landscape where each state passes different laws, creating uncertainty for businesses.
    โ†’ ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฒ•์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ธฐ์—…์— ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜• ๊ทœ์ œ ์ฒด๊ณ„

  5. AI Doomers (AI ํŒŒ๊ตญ๋ก ์ž)
    A label for those who emphasize existential risks from uncontrolled AI development.
    โ†’ ํ†ต์ œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ด ์ธ๋ฅ˜์— ํŒŒ๊ตญ์  ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๋Š” ์ž…์žฅ

๐Ÿง  In Focus

The tech lobby's pivot to AI-focused campaigning reflects how central AI has become to national economic and security priorities. With the Biden administration slow to pass comprehensive rules, companies fear a patchwork of state-level laws that could paralyze progress. Leading the Future seeks to counterbalance these fragmented efforts with centralized political messaging.

์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋กœ๋น„๊ฐ€ AI ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•œ ๊ฑด, AI๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์™€ ์•ˆ๋ณด์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด๋“  ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ด„์  ๊ทœ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์†Œ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ด, ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ ๋‹จ์œ„์˜ ๋ˆ„๋”๊ธฐ์‹ ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ AI ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ๋งˆ๋น„์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์šฐ๋ คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Leading the Future๋Š” ๋ถ„์‚ฐ๋œ ๊ทœ์ œ ์›€์ง์ž„์— ๋งž์„œ ํ†ต์ผ๋œ ์ •์น˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒฉ์„ ๊พ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The political calculus here isnโ€™t just about industry defenseโ€”itโ€™s about narrative control. By influencing both Democrat and Republican races, the PAC aims to position AI development as a patriotic and job-creating cause. But critics argue this masks a deeper agenda: preemptively shaping rules before meaningful public oversight emerges.

์ด ์ •์น˜์  ์…ˆ๋ฒ•์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ฐฉ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์„ ์ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ „๋žต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น๊ณผ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ๋ชจ๋‘์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋ ค๋Š” PAC์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์• ๊ตญ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์ ์ธ ํ–‰์œ„๋กœ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋น„ํŒ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Š” ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ณต ๊ฐ๋…์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์ „์— ๊ทœ์น™์„ ์„ ์ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ „ ํฌ์„์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ regulatory chill (๊ทœ์ œ ์œ„์ถ• ํšจ๊ณผ)
"Overzealous rules could trigger a regulatory chill and stifle innovation."

"๊ณผ๋„ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์œ„์ถ•์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” '๊ทœ์ œ ์œ„์ถ• ํšจ๊ณผ'๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ playbook from crypto (์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ์ „๋žต ์ฐจ์šฉ)
"The AI lobby seems to be using the same playbook from cryptoโ€™s political surge."

"AI ๋กœ๋น„๋Š” ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ์ •์น˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ฐจ์šฉํ•œ ๋“ฏ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ policy capture (์ •์ฑ… ํฌํš)
"There's a risk of policy capture when billionaires fund both sides of the aisle."

"์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž๋“ค์ด ์–‘๋‹น์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ›„์›ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ •์ฑ… ํฌํš์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ future-proof regulation (๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์ง€ํ–ฅ ๊ทœ์ œ)
"We need future-proof regulation that grows with the tech, not against it."

"๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์ง€ํ–ฅ์  ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ AI as a public good (๊ณต๊ณต์žฌ๋กœ์„œ์˜ AI)
"Treating AI as a public good changes how we approach policy altogether."

"AI๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ณต์žฌ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ์€ ์ •์ฑ… ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ‰๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States

๐Ÿ“ฐ Media โ€“ The Wall Street Journal reports tech leaders are worried about losing the AI race to China, framing PAC activity as necessary for national security. Politico highlights concerns of policy capture and billionaire overreach in electoral politics.
์–ธ๋ก  โ€“ ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ์ €๋„์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์ด AI ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ๋’ค์ฒ˜์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉฐ PAC ํ™œ๋™์„ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์ „๋žต์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ฝ”๋Š” ์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐœ์ž…๊ณผ ์ •์ฑ… ํฌํš ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ› Research โ€“ Brookings Institution analyzes how fragmented state-level AI laws may hinder innovation and increase compliance costs. RAND warns of democratic risks when concentrated wealth shapes AI policy discourse.
์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ธฐ๊ด€ โ€“ ๋ธŒ๋ฃจํ‚น์Šค ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ๋œ AI ๋ฒ•์•ˆ๋“ค์ด ํ˜์‹ ์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ์ค€์ˆ˜ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋žœ๋“œ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋Š” ๋ถ€์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์ด AI ์ •์ฑ… ๋‹ด๋ก ์„ ์žฅ์•…ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์  ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์ปค์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Communities โ€“ On platforms like X and Hacker News, users debate if tech billionaires are defending innovation or gaming the system. Some call for open AI policy development through citizen panels, not closed-door lobbying.
์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ โ€“ X์™€ ํ•ด์ปค๋‰ด์Šค ๋“ฑ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ์•…์šฉํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ด์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ ํ์‡„์  ๋กœ๋น„ ๋Œ€์‹  ์‹œ๋ฏผ ํŒจ๋„์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์  AI ์ •์ฑ… ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

When democracy meets deep learning, the real battle isnโ€™t just at the ballot boxโ€”itโ€™s over who defines the future.

๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋”ฅ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ๋งŒ๋‚  ๋•Œ, ์ง„์งœ ์‹ธ์›€์€ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•จ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋†“๊ณ  ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… 2010 โ€“ The first political super PACs emerged in 2010, after the U.S. Supreme Courtโ€™s Citizens United decision.
๐Ÿ“… 2010 โ€“ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์Šˆํผ PAC์€ 2010๋…„ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์˜ ์‹œํ‹ฐ์ฆŒ์Šค ์œ ๋‚˜์ดํ‹ฐ๋“œ ํŒ๊ฒฐ ์ดํ›„ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections" (The Wall Street Journal, 2025)

  • "AI lobby emulates crypto tactics with new PAC" (Politico, 2025)

  • "The Rise of Super PACs: A Post-Citizens United Era" (Brookings Institution, 2023)

  • "AI Regulation and National Security: Balancing Innovation and Risk" (RAND Corporation, 2024)

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๋ฉด์ฑ… ์กฐํ•ญ: ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ต์œก์ ยท์ •๋ณด ์ œ๊ณต์„ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์žฌ๋ฌดยท๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋“ฑ ์ „๋ฌธ์  ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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