Your move
Make sure you’re registered, then check where your candidates stand on AI before November 3.
Updated Oct. 27 · Election Day is Tue, Nov. 3 · Early voting is underway in many states, and rules differ, so check yours at vote.gov. [135]
This page only looks at where candidates stand on AI. It won’t tell you who to vote for.
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None on the list for your state. No state has a statewide AI measure this year.
Candidates: AI positions and outside spending
Only about AI: what candidates have said on it, and money from AI focused groups. Nothing else they stand for is covered here.
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We didn’t find any candidates here with a clear AI record or AI money behind them yet. Use the questions below to ask them.
Nationwide
Your ballot is much shorter. You only vote on races where you live. Pick your state above to see what’s on it.
How candidates are sorted
When you pick your state, you’ll see candidates we’ve identified with documented AI positions or relevant outside spending. A candidate is only listed if there’s proof we can link to:
Party plays no part in who’s listed. Who shows up comes only from that data and from candidates’ own AI records, so the mix of parties changes when the tracker updates.
There are two sides of AI money. AI industry money comes from the Leading the Future network (Think Big, American Mission, Building the Future), funded by people like OpenAI president Greg Brockman and the investment firm Andreessen Horowitz. It pushes for one national rulebook instead of state AI laws. [120] [96] Safeguards money comes mostly from the Public First network (Jobs and Democracy, Defending Our Values), plus Guardrails Alliance, You Can Push Back and Tomorrow Together. Its funders include the AI company Anthropic. It backs candidates who support AI safety rules for kids, workers and the public. [241] “Safeguards money” and “AI industry money” are this site’s plain names for what the tracker calls “pro-safety” and “pro-innovation” groups. That’s our frame of reference: we only look at AI, not anything else a candidate stands for.
It’s not just one company asking for rules
In October 2025, a long list of well known people signed a statement asking for a ban on building AI smarter than humans until scientists agree it can be done safely and the public is on board. They included AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, actors Stephen Fry and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, musician will.i.am, Richard Branson, Prince Harry and Meghan, former top U.S. military officer Mike Mullen, former Obama adviser Susan Rice, and well known conservative voices too. [242] [243]
Candidates with documented words or a record get a position label, shown by shape: ● Leans toward AI safeguards, ◐ Mixed, or ○ Leans toward fewer AI rules. Outside spending appears in separate tags and does not determine a position label. Candidates without documented words or a record have no position label.
Spending tags get a dot too, so you can see at a glance which side the money is on: ● safeguards money backing them, ○ AI industry money backing them or safeguards money against them. That shows who is betting on them, not what they believe.
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A lot of AI law is being made by states, not just Congress. And many towns are voting on data centers, which use a lot of local power and water. Your local ballot matters.
Some places are still collecting signatures to put data centers to a vote, like Weld County, Colorado. [244] Ohio lists every petition circulating in the state. [245] Signing one is a five minute step.