A pro-AI super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman has chosen New York Assembly member Alex Bores \u2014 and his congressional bid \u2014 as its first target.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The PAC, dubbed Leading the Future<\/a>, formed in August with a more than $100 million commitment to support policymakers with a light-touch \u2014 or a no-touch \u2014 approach to AI regulation. And that means going after policymakers who want to regulate AI.\u00a0The super PAC has backing from a number of other prominent leaders in tech, including Palantir co-founder\u00a0and 8VC managing partner Joe Lonsdale as well as AI search engine Perplexity.<\/p>\n \u201cI appreciate how straightforward they\u2019re being about it,\u201d Bores told a room of journalists Monday evening at a Journalism Workshop on AGI impacts and governance in Washington, D.C. \u201cWhen they say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re going to spend millions against Alex because he might regulate Big Tech and put basic guardrails on AI,\u2019 I just basically forward that to my constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n Bores, who\u2019s running to represent the state\u2019s 12th Congressional District, said AI anxieties are on the rise among his constituents, who worry about everything from data centers pushing up utility bills and worsening climate change to chatbots impacting kids\u2019 mental health and automation transforming the job market.<\/p>\n Bores is the chief sponsor of New York\u2019s bipartisan RAISE Act<\/a>, which requires large AI labs to have a safety plan in place to prevent critical harms, follow their own safety plan, and disclose critical safety incidents, like bad actors stealing an AI model. The bill also prohibits AI firms from releasing models with unreasonable risks of critical harm and imposes civil penalties of up to $30 million if companies fail to live up to these standards. The legislation is currently awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s signature.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bores said while drafting and redrafting the bill, he consulted with the large AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Those negotiations led to the removal of provisions like third-party safety audits, which he says the industry refused to accept. Nevertheless, the RAISE Act, and Bores himself, appears to have incurred the ire of Silicon Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n Zac Moffatt and Josh Vlasto, heads of Leading the Future, told Politico<\/a> that they would work on a multibillion-dollar effort to sink Bores\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco In a statement sent to TechCrunch, they accused Bores of advancing \u201cideological and politically motivated legislation that would handcuff not only New York\u2019s, but the entire country\u2019s ability to lead on AI jobs and innovation.\u201d The pair said \u201cbills like the RAISE Act threaten American competitiveness, limit economic growth, leave users exposed to foreign influence and manipulation, and undermine our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe RAISE Act is a clear example of the patchwork, uninformed, and bureaucratic state laws that would slow American progress and open the door for China to win the global race for AI leadership,\u201d Moffatt and Vlasto said in the emailed statement. \u201cAmerica needs one clear and consistent national regulatory framework for AI that strengthens our economy, creates jobs for American workers, supports vibrant communities, and protects users.\u201d<\/p>\n Many in Silicon Valley have pushed to prohibit states from passing regulation that relates to AI. Earlier this year, a provision<\/a> blocking state AI laws was slipped into the federal budget bill and was later removed. Now, lawmakers like Sen. Ted Cruz are seeking to resurrect it through other legislative avenues.<\/a><\/p>\n Bores said he is concerned such a movement could continue to gain legs at a time when the federal government has passed no meaningful AI regulation. Where federal government moves slow, states are like startups \u2014 they can function as policy laboratories and move fast to test what works.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe question should be, has Congress solved the problem?\u201d Bores said. \u201cIf Congress solves the problem, then it can tell the states to get out of the way, but if they\u2019re not going to pass a bill that\u2019s actually addressing any of the problems\u2026and then [saying that states can\u2019t do anything] that just doesn\u2019t make sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Bores also noted he has been in contact with policymakers in other states to work on standardizing legislation, which could combat Silicon Valley\u2019s \u201cpatchwork\u201d objection. He also believes that lawmakers should ensure there are no redundancies with the EU AI Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bores emphasized that AI regulation isn\u2019t meant to limit innovation, and that he has rejected bills that he thinks would have unintended consequences for the industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHaving basic rules of the road, literal or metaphorical, is actually a very pro-innovation stance if done well,\u201d Bores said. \u201cI fundamentally believe that the AI that wins is going to be the AI that is trustworthy. And the pushback from industry to say that government has no role in establishing that trust is one that I think you\u2019re seeing people reject at every level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pro-AI super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman has chosen New York Assembly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1175,1176,24879,24880,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-43377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-ai-policy","9":"tag-ai-regulation","10":"tag-alex-bores","11":"tag-leading-the-future","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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