AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him
AI industry spending against Alex Bores may have raised his profile instead of burying his campaign.
The Verge frames New York’s 12th District Democratic primary as a proxy fight over AI regulation. OpenAI-linked backers and an Anthropic-backed PAC are spending on opposite sides of Alex Bores’ congressional run. The irony is that attacks meant to weaken Bores may have made him more visible, turning a local race into a national signal about AI political power.
This article from The Verge portrays the Democratic primary in New York's 12th Congressional District as a proxy war over the power to regulate AI. The central figure, Alex Bores, is a New York State Assembly member who is also running for a congressional seat. The reason he became a target of attention from AI industry backers is not that he is anti-technology, but that he has a technology background, previously worked at Palantir, and advocates that the government establish safety, transparency, and accountability standards for frontier AI models. This makes it politically difficult to reduce him to "a regulation advocate who doesn't understand technology."
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