I don't think they plan on voters being an insurmountable problem.

Turns out telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined. Imagine spending hundreds of millions buying political influence, only to discover voters don’t enjoy being treated like obsolete hardware.

Expect bipartisan legislation to increase the anonymity of PAC money before the year is over.

Which billionaires aren't flooding money into politics to influence elections? They were doing it long before all the AI drama.

Hello Americans! Please vote! Sincerely, everyone else.

I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren't paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.

They're using AI. They think it's wonderful, they've barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think "data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don'T yoU?"

The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):

• Therapy and companionship
• Organizing my life
• Finding purpose
• Enhanced learning
• Summarizing content
• Generating ideas
• Generating code (for professionals)
• Improving code (for professionals)
• Creativity
• Visual art and design

By backfiring you mean they have nearly total control then yes. Those losers, it has totally backfired on them and now they are richer and more powerful than ever!

I'm sick of all the shiny shoes and the posturing. I need a serious person with substance.

The next step seems obvious: they'll take a page from the tobacco, gun, and meat industries and instead create fake think tanks or associations to funnel political money semi-anonymously.

AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics are flooding politics with money, or pouring money into politics.

This is grade school stuff, FFS!

their efforts aren't buying the political capital they'd hoped for.

Trump did get elected by "AI money" and they all celebrated on stage with him, you know.

Midterms? Yeah, when you are an indisputably shitty President who has broken every campaign promise and is openly deranged, you will likely lose the midterms no matter how much you try to pump Republicans. Diminishing returns.

Usually the "winning" party only holds power for a couple terms, then, after their incompetence has disgusted yet another generation of voters, they lose, only to be replaced by the other party that will repeat the process.

bOtH sIdEs, YeS, oH My

I vote in every election, and you should too. Because it's funny

Capitalism is incompatible with democracy.

All Dems have to do is run with Data Center Prohibition as their main issue, and they would win EVERY election, and destroy the MAGA movement. Even Republicans hate Data Centers, and ALL MAGA candidates LOVE them. No MAGA candidate cans say anything against them. Florida MAGA candidates are trying to ease it by claiming that they'll make sure that citizens won't pay the costs, but everybody knows they're lying. That's about the most opposition they're putting.

MAGA is the party of UNLIMITED Data Centers. Just slam that over and over, and NOBODY will vote MAGA.

Troll Musk. Vote Democrat.

Give us each $100,000 and I'll consider it.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Everyone who goes into politics wants money. Musk gives them money. Profit!

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Futurism articles are just written by AI tbh...

Low bar journalism and reporting.

Turns out that taking hubris to far, thinking that the public will suck it all up just because they always did does have its turning point.

Don't forget cryptocurrency (UK Reform party big whoopsie)

Same billionaires are funding the campaigns of both parties. they keep winning no matter who gets elected.

It feels surreal to live among the gullible

Add to that, I have a hunch that a good chunk of people who are the most vocal against AI heavily use AI themselves. like game devs using ai to produce music, and musicians use AI to make posters, and novelists using AI to illustrate their works, many people call for solidarity against AI to save their professions while using AI to replace other professions.

I am one of the most haters on AI, but I two acknowledge that people are hypocrites on the internet

Stupid sexy Stalin...

The Billionaire capture of our screens and thoughts has been very successful overall. Stay vigilant.

Elon Musk alone has pumped more than $445 million into Republican campaigns ahead of the midterms, after spending a near-equal sum to get president Donald Trump elected in the last election cycle. Leading The Future, a Super PAC backed by OpenAI and Palantir cofounders and prominent tech venture capitalists including Marc Andreessen, has amassed $140 million to dole out to pro-AI candidates.

From wikipedia about Leading the Future:

In May 2026, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that super PACs associated with Leading the Future evaded federal transparency requirements by funneling payments through shell companies.[22] Contributions to Leading the Future in 2026 include $50,000,000 from Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen and $25,000,000 from Greg and Anna Brockman.[23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_the_Future

This is propaganda to get the left to stay home and not vote.

Is it backfiring, though? [Gestures broadly]

This is a bullshit headline and pretty much propaganda against voting regardless of the content.