"The PAC, dubbed Leading the Future, formed in August with a more than $100 million commitment to support policymakers with a light-touch - or a no-touch - approach to AI regulation. And that means going after policymakers who want to regulate AI. The super PAC has backing from a number of other prominent leaders in tech, including Palantir co-founder and 8VC managing partner Joe Lonsdale as well as AI search engine Perplexity."
""I appreciate how straightforward they're being about it," Bores told a room of journalists Monday evening at a Journalism Workshop on AGI impacts and governance in Washington D.C. "When they say, 'Hey, we're going to spend millions against Alex because he might regulateBig Techand put basic guardrails on AI,' I just basically forward that to my constituents.""
"Bores is the chief sponsor of New York's bipartisan RAISE Act, 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."
Leading the Future is a pro-AI super PAC formed in August with more than $100 million to support light-touch AI regulation. The PAC targets policymakers and is backed by tech leaders including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman. The PAC chose New York Assembly member Alex Bores as its first target because of his potential to regulate Big Tech and impose guardrails. Alex Bores is the chief sponsor of the bipartisan RAISE Act, which requires large AI labs to adopt safety plans, disclose critical incidents, prohibit risky model releases, and impose civil penalties up to $30 million. The legislation is awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul's signature.
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