Late last year, New York State Representative Alex Bores became the target of a pro-AI super PAC campaign aimed at sabotaging his congressional bid. The group, called Leading the Future, has more than $100 million in funding from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.
Bores’ response was simple. Get started right away. Now he has the strength to take on the challenge.
Public First Action, a PAC backed by a $20 million donation from Anthropic, is spending $450,000 to promote Bores in the race for New York’s 12th congressional district, Bloomberg reported. Like its competitors, the Commission supports AI, but presents a different vision that focuses on transparency, safety standards, and public oversight.
Meanwhile, Leading the Future, an industry-backed PAC, has already poured $1.1 million into ads attacking Bores. That’s because it sponsored New York’s RAISE Act, which would require major AI developers to disclose safety protocols and report serious misuse of their systems.
