Late last year, New York Assemblyman Alex Bores became the target of a pro-AI super PAC campaign to derail his bid in Congress. The Leading the Future group is armed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.
Bores’ answer was simple: bring it on. Now he has the muscle to back up the challenge.
Public First Action, a PAC backed by a $20 million donation from Anthropic, is spending $450,000 to support Bores in the race for New York’s 12th Congressional District, Bloomberg reports. Like its rival, the committee is pro-AI, but presents a different vision that focuses on transparency, safety standards and public oversight.
Meanwhile, an industry-backed PAC, Leading the Future, has already poured $1.1 million into ads attacking Bores, primarily because it sponsored New York’s RAISE Act, which requires major AI developers to disclose security protocols and report serious abuse of their systems.