This politician is in favor of regulating AI and the AI companies are trying to end his campaign with their money The Best Politician In A GenerationBig tech’s smear campaign against Alex Bores has reached truly unbelievable lowsAlex Bores is the best politician in a generation. He has displayed extreme political courage standing up to the big AI companies. And for that, they are trying to destroy him utterly, to grind him to dust, to let everyone know that standing up for AI regulation is political suicide.Alex Bores is running for Congress in NY-12. I’ve donated to Bores the maximum legal amount you can give a politician, upon reading a very persuasive essay https://ericneyman.blog/2025/10/20/consider-donating-to-alex-bores-author-of-the-raise-act/ making the case that money donated to him is extremely cost-effective. He’s pushed for the strongest AI safety law in the country called The RAISE Act, which requires frontier AI companies to publish detailed assessments of catastrophic risks from their products and develop a plan to mitigate those risks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_AI_Safety_and_Education_Act
>>536738368AI safety is one of the most important issues of our era. Leading experts consistently think that AI has a non-trivial chance of ushering in human extinction. I think the odds are around one in fifty; most other people who have thought carefully about the issue think risks are even higher. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13700
>>536738368> American politican> fighting for anything
>>536738369And that’s just from losing control of AI there are also big risks from AI-enabled authoritarianism, weapons development, and unprecedented societal disruption. Imagine a government using AI to analyze data at scale to screen for political dissidents, or a terrorist using AI to build a bioweapon that unleashes a disease far more infectious and lethal than any around today. These risks aren’t terribly unlikely, and we need politicians working to mitigate them.Bores was willing to burn political capital fighting for AI safety, even when it wasn’t politically salient. Were I in NY-12, I wouldn’t hesitate to vote for Bores. He’s one of the few politicians who has a clear-eyed understanding of the risks of AI, and how big a deal it will become in the coming years.It is for this reason that the industry is trying to crush him, utterly. They want to send a signal that anyone who stands up to big AI companies is doomed.
>>536738371A Super PAC called Leading the Future was born from an unholy matrimony between big tech and the darkest corners of the DC swamp. They’ve raised 125 million dollars in the second half of 2025 alone, https://www.notus.org/money/ai-super-pac-fundraising-midterms-democrats-republicans trying to defeat candidates who support AI regulation. Leading backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Greg Brockman (OpenAI president and co-founder, who also donated huge amounts to Trump’s PAC), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir co-founder), Ron Conway (SV Angel founder), and Perplexity (the AI search company). LTF is a highly-funded political organization designed to make sure that AI regulations don’t get implemented.It’s the second biggest industry Super PAC ever. Its top priority: defeating Bores.
>>536738372Bores is a very effective politician. https://www.alexbores.nyc/accomplishments/ He’s passed bills speeding up trials, mitigating pandemic risk, and preventing companies from requiring you to jump through many hurdles to cancel your subscriptions. See here for all the bills he’s introduced. https://alexboresbills.org/ He’s both good at getting things done and has the right priorities.
>>536738373Bores is a generationally great politician. I want him in Congress, helping pass regulations that ensure AI is developed safely and stop animal torture. But this isn’t the only reason this fight matters. If the industry succeeds in crushing Bores, this will send a signal to other politicians: if you stand up against the AI companies who are building technologies that pose existential threats, your political career is over. Future politicians will be less likely to pass AI regulations if Bores is successfully defeated.The fight against Bores has been extremely dirty.LTF opposes Bores because he supports AI safety. But when they run attack ads on him, they don’t mention that, https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2026/05/20/ai-money-floods-manhattan-congressional-race because their position is wildly unpopular. In fact, a PAC sponsored by Palantir attacks Bores for his having worked for Palantir. As the Bores campaign put it: https://www.alexbores.nyc/news/ltf-debate-5-18/
>>536738368If Trump was based, he would've dissolved Congress already.
>>536738374Leading the Future has pledged to spend $10 million to defeat Alex before he ever sets foot in Congress. Its founders said publicly they want to “make an example” of him so that no politician anywhere ever again tries to put guardrails on AI.They have succeeded. Just not in the way they intended.What followed has been, by any measure, one of the most politically inept advertising campaigns in recent memory. The super PAC has spent millions accusing Alex a Democrat running in a Manhattan primary, who wrote the country’s strongest AI safety law over the AI industry’s furious objections of secretly working for the AI industry. It has imported grievances from the absolute deepest crevices of tech Twitter and mailed them, on glossy paper, to people who have never heard the word “doomer” and would not like it if they had. It has paid actual American currency to test-market phrases like “effective accelerationism” on Upper East Side Democrats. It has produced ads so transparently weird that the Bores campaign’s main concern is they might be doing this on purpose, except no one is that committed to a bit.
>>536738376But this isn’t the lowest they’ve stooped. The PAC created an AI-generated slop factory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_the_Future to churn out articles attacking AI regulations. They’ve paid TikTok influencers thousands of dollars to make videos attacking AI regulations without disclosing their funders. They even carried out a bizarre false flag operation, https://x.com/TheMidasProj/status/2062188060004241592 where they facilitated a Twitter account posing as a violent AI-safety extremist, “Jonathan Doomer.” In other words, to make AI-safety supporters look violent, they pretend to be AI-safety supporters and then spout violent rhetoric.Pic related >Posted by “Jonathan Doomer” beneath a Tweet saying “AI is an intruder in your home.”
>>536738368>Large frontier developers must write, implement, and publicly publish a "frontier AI framework" describing how they assess and mitigate catastrophic risks, secure unreleased model weights against unauthorized access, use third-party evaluators, govern internal use of frontier models, and respond to safety incidents. The framework must describe these measures "in detail," a requirement that goes beyond the California TFAIA's requirement to describe a developer's "approach.">Catastrophic risk and incident reporting>The law defines "catastrophic risk" as a foreseeable and material risk that a frontier model will contribute to the death of or serious injury to more than 50 people, or more than $1 billion in property damage, arising from a frontier model providing expert-level assistance in creating chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons; engaging in cyberattacks or conduct equivalent to crimes such as murder, assault, or theft without meaningful human oversight; or evading the control of its developer or user.>foreseeableUseless
>>536738368These regulations... Maybe we see them?
>>536738377The gratuitousness of the tactics is part of the point. The industry wants everyone who stands up to them to know: if you resist, you will be crushed. They will spend 10 million dollars pretending to be your supporters and calling for violence, sponsoring influencers without disclosure, running repeated dishonest ads, and broadly fighting as dirty as they can possibly fight.Michael Ledeen, explaining the rationale for the Iraq War reportedly said, “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” That’s what LTF is doing. They’re trying to find some safety-conscious politician and destroy him so that every other politician knows that to stand up to them is to end your political career.>>536738378it’s a good first step and moves thr Overton window in a good direction, he’s a politician not a priest
>>536738380So some useless bill as the most cost effective politician? I don't see the end goal besides throwing away money. I'd rather but off AliExpress and use qwen or deepseek
>>536738380>if you resist, you will be crushed.This is main character derangement. You will not be crushed for resisting ai. You are hysterical.
>>536738382that’s what they did to thomas massie
>>536738383Oh, so you mean if lawyers make laws against ai, then other lawyers will spend money to have other lawyers write the laws?Seems like I definitely wont give a fuck.What kinds of laws do you need to have on ai?
>>536738384Ideally a treaty with china for both countries to pause AI development with a international atomic energy agency enforcing it on both
>effortposting on /g/An AI posting anti ai contentWould be amusing if it weren't irritating
>>536738368>votinglol
>>536738368This is clearly generated by AI. I mean, not bad trolling.> requires frontier AI companies to publish detailed assessments of catastrophic risks from their products and develop a plan to mitigate those risksLMAOSo basically they will have a say in how compatition should be regulated out of existance. And a chance to talk giberrish about how dangerous next token prediction is.
>>536738388It’s not https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-best-politician-in-a-generation Heres the author Matt https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u8IFftudiCI
