"Leading the Future - a $100 million pro-AI super PAC formed in August and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman - has identified its first target: Alex Bores, a Democratic congressional candidate running for the New York seat being vacated by Rep. Jerrold Nadler after three decades in Congress. It's an early signal of a broader shift: while AI won't determine every race in the upcoming midterms, it is emerging as a potent new pressure point in American politics, particularly as deep-pocketed Silicon Valley interests begin injecting themselves into local contests from afar."
"Bores is the chief sponsor of New York's RAISE Act, which would require large AI labs to create and follow safety plans designed to prevent critical harms; disclose serious safety incidents, such as the theft of an AI model; and avoid releasing systems that pose "unreasonable" risks. Companies that fail to comply could face civil penalties of up to $30 million. The legislation-similar to a California's SB-1047, a bill vetoed by California Governor Gavin Newsom last year-awaits Governor Kathy Hochul's signature and has attracted support from AI safety advocates, policy groups, and prominent researchers including AI "godfathers" Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton."
AI influence is shifting into electoral politics as a pro-AI super PAC targets a New York congressional candidate and Silicon Valley funds enter local races. The pro-AI PAC Leading the Future, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, identified Alex Bores as its first target. Bores sponsored New York's RAISE Act requiring large AI labs to implement safety plans, disclose serious incidents, and avoid releasing systems posing "unreasonable" risks, with penalties up to $30 million; the bill awaits Governor Kathy Hochul's signature and attracted support from prominent researchers. Major industry moves include strategic partnerships among Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic; a Cloudflare outage that disrupted AI services; Jeff Bezos founding an AI startup as co-CEO; Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son backing a new research lab aiming to revive the spirit of Bell Labs; and Japanese startup Sakana AI raising $135 million at a $2.65 billion valuation.
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