New York City House primary emerges as key battleground in 'AI civil war' [View all]
Source: The Guardian
The frenzy began a year ago, when Bores sponsored the Raise Act, the second-ever US state law requiring major AI developers to publish public safety plans. By August, his congressional campaign was under siege - attack ads on TV, by text, in the mail. The effort has been funded by Think Big, an affiliate of Leading the Future, a new bipartisan network of Super Pacs created to back "pro-AI" candidates, which has poured $8.2m into the primary.
... The frenzy began a year ago, when Bores sponsored the Raise Act, the second-ever US state law requiring major AI developers to publish public safety plans. By August, his congressional campaign was under siege - attack ads on TV, by text, in the mail. The effort has been funded by Think Big, an affiliate of Leading the Future, a new bipartisan network of Super Pacs created to back "pro-AI" candidates, which has poured $8.2m into the primary.
Just four donors fund its $75m war chest: venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman with his wife, Anna, according to data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Like most of Silicon Valley, the group advocates for regulating AI with a federal framework, instead of a patchwork of state laws - a compliance minefield that will hand the AI race to China, tech firms warn.
However, Leading the Future's anti-Bores ad blitz triggered a counter-assault by a different set of Super Pacs advocating for stronger AI safeguards. They include You Can Push Back, funded by crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, and Jobs and Democracy, the Democrat-focused subsidiary of the Public First - a network of Super Pacs, founded by Brad Carson, a former Democratic congressman from Oklahoma.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/22/new-york-city-house-primary-race
Any regulation of AI should start with all things [link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_technologyFinTech,] imo, which Bores apparently understands. If pro-AI deregulation oligarchs win against Bores and his oligarch supporters in New York City, they'll have a playbook that likely can take over the financial capital of the world. This first pro-AI win could mean serious ramifications for investors (pension funds, for example) not to mention campaign finance & dark money streams that exist because of the Citizens United ruling. Admittedly I don't know much of anything about Fintech Law, or if there is even such a thing.
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