AI safety advocates are counting the midterms as a major win while sketching out their plans for the fight ahead, according to a memo from Anthropic-linked Public First Action and its affiliated super PACs that was shared first with Semafor.

Public First, which gets significant funding from Anthropic and backs AI guardrails, wrote that Leading the Future — the top pro-AI super PAC — had a “crash out,” but warned: “It would be a mistake to read this cycle and Leading the Future’s decline as the end of Big Tech’s AI political project. … It is paramount that a pro-safety organization be prepared to counter, toxify, and ultimately overcome such an industry-backed opposition campaign.”

Its 2027 goals include getting Congress to pass AI laws that don’t preempt state legislation, supporting pro-AI safety candidates, and rebutting pro-AI messaging by Leading the Future, which has $30 million currently in the bank: “Between now and 2028, we will make sure that AI is a top-tier issue in the presidential race, in every House and Senate race, and in gubernatorial, attorney general, and state legislative races.”

Burgess Everett contributed.