Fact Check: The AI Industry’s Attacks on Alex Bores

The False Attacks on Alex Bores

Follow the money.

You may have seen ads, texts, and mailers going after Alex Bores. They’re false, and the people funding it tell you more about the race than anything in the ads.

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WHO IS FUNDING THIS?

After Alex passed the RAISE Act — the strongest AI safety law in the country — AI billionaires launched a $10 million Super PAC to defeat him. These AI oligarchs — OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale, Marc Andreessen, and others — are some of Trump’s biggest donors.

They don't want Congress regulating their business. They want to keep making billions without oversight or guardrails.

THE TRUTH

Alex joined Palantir during the Obama administration and worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs to better staff their hospitals, the CDC to track epidemics, and the Department of Justice to go after the big banks and recover $20 billion for taxpayers. He NEVER worked on ICE contracts . When Palantir decided to take ICE work expanding mass deportations under the Trump administration, Alex quit the company. When his values and his job came into conflict, he chose his values. And Palantir is upset about that; one of the PAC’s funders is also a co-founder of Palantir (Joe Lonsdale).

Alex VS. ICE

Alex was the first candidate in this race to call to ABOLISH ICE — a massive, unaccountable agency that detains innocent people while failing to keep Americans safe. Alex will abolish ICE and prosecute agents who violate civil liberties.

The Real Opposition

Judge Alex by the people most afraid of him. His most significant opposition isn't another candidate — it's the Trump megadonors funding these attacks . These AI billionaires gave Trump tens of millions of dollars to get an executive order to prevent states from regulating AI. Alex’s success with the RAISE Act and his AI regulation framework for Congress are the last thing they want to see.

What This Is Really About

Trump’s AI billionaire megadonors believe they can buy this race and send a message to anyone who challenges them — scaring Democrats from ever taking them on again. Every Democrat says they'll fight Trump and corporate power. Alex is the one Trump’s megadonors are actually spending millions to defeat because passed the RAISE Act and will regulate AI in Congress. That tells you everything.

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In the Press

“A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.”

Politico

“The group had promised in November that they would target him, because Bores, a Democratic state assemblymember, had recently passed an AI safety bill in the New York legislature widely regarded as the furthest-reaching in the country.”

Politico

“There’s a huge political opportunity for the party that can stand up for human beings in the face of this alienating, machine-worshiping ethos. For Democrats to seize it, they need both the fortitude to make foes of some of the world’s richest men and the expertise to know how these technologies can be constrained. If Leading the Future fears a candidate, those of us desperate for a different future should consider it an endorsement.”

New York Times

“...only Bores gives voters the opportunity to defeat the tech oligarchs unleashing tsunamis of cash to buy political submission. No one else in the race has better enemies.”

New York Times

“Bores has been the subject of attack ads funded by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman’s Leading the Future PAC, partly over his co-sponsorship of New York’s RAISE Act, an AI safety bill signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last December.”

Axios

“Leading the Future, a super PAC tied to OpenAI, Palantir and the prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has raised more than $100 million to take down candidates who support A.I. regulation. A chief target: Alex Bores, a Democrat in the New York State Assembly who is running for the U.S. House. Bores, a former software engineer who once worked at Palantir, has become a prominent proponent of A.I. regulation, leading New York State’s effort.”

New York Times

“[The] goal is not actually to kill Alex’s race. Their goal…is to scare other legislators into submission.”

Politico

What Will Alex Do?

“As a New York assemblyman, Bores sponsored the 2025 Responsible Artificial Intelligence Safety and Education, or RAISE, Act. Similar to a California law, the act requires large A.I. developers to take steps to prevent ‘critical harm,’ to report safety incidents and to publish their safety and security protocols. [...] Bores hopes, in Congress, to spearhead A.I. legislation at the federal level, including child safety measures, a national data privacy law and laws to protect consumers from electricity price hikes caused by data centers.”

New York Times

He’s released a detailed AI policy framework covering kids’ online safety, data privacy, deepfakes, data centers, workforce impacts, and frontier model safety. It’s a roadmap for policymakers on this issue.

“Alex Bores, the Democratic New York assembly member running for Congress, is making AI safety central to his campaign with a new policy platform released on Thursday.”

Axios

“Alex Bores, a New York state lawmaker at the center of the political fight over the future of artificial intelligence, released an eight-point plan for a national AI framework Wednesday, wading further into the issue that is defining his campaign for Congress.”

NBC News