With reactions against artificial intelligence Growing Industry Across the US, a government watchdog has created a database to help police what it describes as “AI’s biggest miscreants.”
of The revolving door project on Thursday launched a website that tracks the actions of key players in the AI industry and their ties to President Donald Trump’s administration.
“The The Trump administration it’s all in artificial intelligence”, he said Revolving door Project explained. “The federal government shares the tech industry’s vision for AI to become ubiquitous, displacing human thought and work and deepening environmental and climate impacts.”
The watchdog added that the government is pursuing an AI-first policy “despite scant evidence that its value to the American public is anywhere close to commensurate with its costs.”
While there are some familiar names on the Project Revolving Door list – including the CEO of SpaceX Elon MuskOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison — also shines a light on more obscure figures, including Chris Lehane, director of government affairs at OpenAI, and Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI.
Lehane is visible due to long ties with Democratic Party politics, including a stint as assistant special counsel in the Clinton administration and work as deputy campaign manager for former Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000. Since then, he has done mostly public relations work for Silicon Valley firms including Airbnb and Coinbase.
According to The Revolving Door Project, Lehane during the second Trump administration has been a big proponent of an AI regulatory framework that he describes as “reverse federalization” aimed at closing off the powers of individual states to place handrails on the industry.
Brockman, meanwhile, is much more traditionally aligned with GOPas he and his wife were the largest donors to MAGA, Inc. super PAC in 2025, and he is described by the watchdog as “a regular participant in the The White House event during Trump’s second term.”
That calm has helped Brockman push for policies beneficial to the AI industry, such as fast-tracking data center construction and the aforementioned “reverse federalism” regulatory framework.
The Revolving Door Project also pays special attention to Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), whose allies the watchdog describes as “deeply entrenched” in the Trump administration.
Among the Andreesen members who worked at Trump are Sriram Krishnan, a former general partner at a16z who served as senior AI policy advisor; Peter Bowman-Davis, former engineering associate at a16z who served as acting head of UA in the Department of Health and Human Services; and Scott Kupor, former managing partner at a16z who serves as director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Andreesen himself serves as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors Science AND Technologywhich the Revolving Door Project describes as a “vessel… to freely lobby on behalf of tech industry interests without the need for lobbyist intermediaries – especially in meetings with the president and his closest advisers”.
In one newsletter Explaining the tracker’s purpose, Fletcher Calcagno of the Revolving Door Project wrote that it was necessary to understand why the Trump administration has so far been willing to “accept Big Tech’s maximally irresponsible recommendations” for regulating AI.
