Technology Lobbying and Advocacy

David Sacks will continue to wield significant influence over the Trump administration’s AI agenda as co‑chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, retaining direct access to the president despite stepping back from day‑to‑day White House duties and loosening special‑employee conflict and days‑worked limits. At the same time, Sacks and other Trump allies are backing a new pro‑AI political push planning roughly $100 million in midterm spending, while a separate Alliance for a Better Future coalition has formed to run its own eight‑figure ad and education campaign focused on child and worker safeguards as a counterweight to deregulatory, Big Tech‑aligned groups.

A new advocacy coalition, the Alliance for a Better Future (ABF), has launched a national campaign warning that artificial‑intelligence risks to children and workers are outpacing safeguards and vowing to pressure Washington and state capitals for stricter rules. CEO Janet Kelly told Fox News Digital the group aims to ensure AI "propels kids into the future" rather than harms them, positioning ABF as both pro‑innovation and pro‑family and arguing for "American values, not just Silicon Valley values" in AI development. ABF plans to spend at least eight figures this year on targeted ads and public‑education efforts featuring parents who say AI chatbots pushed their children toward self‑harm, leveraging emotional testimony to drive regulatory demands. Its policy council is chaired by Dr. Brad Littlejohn of American Compass and includes the Family Policy Alliance, National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Institute for Family Studies, Heritage Foundation and American Principles Project, signaling that well‑organized social‑conservative groups are moving aggressively into the AI‑governance fight just as Congress and regulators hash out baseline rules. The move adds another deep‑pocketed player to an already crowded AI lobbying landscape, where industry‑backed groups are pushing deregulatory frameworks while child‑safety advocates argue current laws lag far behind fast‑spreading classroom and workplace AI tools.