# Public First **Public First** (FEC committee **C00930503**, first filed **2025-12-12**, Washington DC) is a super PAC in the **AI-policy** fight, funded on this record by **[[Public First Action]]** — its affiliated social-welfare entity — and by **[[Dario Amodei]]**, the chief executive of **[[Anthropic]]**. It sits on the **pro-regulation** side of a contest the vault already tracks from the other direction through [[Leading the Future]] and the [[Fairshake PAC]] network. ## Disclosed receipts read by this vault | Contributor | Amount | Date | Line | File | Status | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | **[[Dario Amodei]]** (Anthropic PBC, CEO) | **$1,000,000.00** | **2026-05-04** | SA11AI | **2020830** | first disclosure | | **[[Public First Action]]** Inc. | **$1,000,000.00** | **2026-02-24** | SA17, non-contribution account | **2020829** | first disclosure | Both rows arrived on **amendment-form (`F3XA`) documents** received **2026-10-13**, and both are nonetheless **first disclosure** — the processed Schedule A index returns each transaction at the **same file number**, with no earlier version. See [[Dario Amodei 1M to Public First]]. Amendment-form rows usually restate earlier money, but this case shows they can carry first-time disclosures. ## Why it matters The vault's AI-money coverage has been built almost entirely from the **deregulatory** side — the [[Fairshake PAC]] network and [[Leading the Future]]. This is the counterparty, and the structure is the same one: **a 501(c)(4)-style entity moving eight figures into a family of super PACs**, with the affiliated fund rather than any individual as the main source. [[Public First Action]] has moved **$26,435,000.00** into six committees this cycle on the vault's own derivation. ⚠️ **The committee's own expenditures have not been read.** Nothing on this page establishes what the money bought or which races it entered. ## Open questions - Its Schedule E and Schedule B — what it has actually spent, and where. - Press reports put **Amodei's giving above $2 million**; this vault's derivation at a $500,000.00 floor finds **$1,000,000.00**. The gap is unresolved and is **not** split the difference here. - Whether Anthropic employees beyond the chief executive appear as contributors. ## See Also - [[Public First Action]] · [[Dario Amodei 1M to Public First]] · [[Dario Amodei]] · [[Anthropic]] - [[Leading the Future]] · [[Fairshake PAC]] - [[Artificial Intelligence]] · [[Super PACs]] · [[Dark Money]] · [[Organizations Hub]]