AI Oligarchs Unleash $125M War Chest to Crush This Rogue Insider
# AI Oligarchs Unleash $125M War Chest to Crush This Rogue Insider
In a jaw-dropping display of tech-fueled arrogance, AI barons are torching $125 million through super PACs like Leading the Future to sabotage Alex Bores' congressional bid in New York's 12th District. Bores, a former Palantir data scientist with a master's in computer science, isn't some Luddite outsider—he's a tech insider who quit over ethics and now champions sane AI guardrails. This isn't democracy; it's a billionaire bully tactic to smother regulation before it clips their trillion-dollar wings.
Bores' sin? Co-sponsoring New York's RAISE Act, signed into law last December, forcing big AI labs (those raking in over $500M) to publish safety plans, stick to them, and report disasters. Light-touch stuff that industries beg for—yet OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, and Marc Andreessen's crew see it as existential Armageddon. They've got $70 million cash on hand, with affiliate Think Big PAC already dropping $446K on sleazy attack ads accusing Bores of profiting off ICE deportations. Bores fired back with a cease-and-desist, calling BS—his Palantir gig was data science, not deportation tech.
<> "This is not a 'We want to have a piece of the conversation.' This is: 'We want to intimidate elected officials and browbeat anyone who doesn't agree with us.'" —Alex Bores/>
Damn right. Average NY assembly races scrape by on $100K total—Meta's alone dumping $65M on state races. Bores' measly $2.2M haul looks puny, but here's the twist: Anthropic employees maxed out $168K donations to him, backing transparency over chaos. Even their PAC, Public First, eyes jumping in, calling Leading the Future a fringe of 'let it rip' ideologues. Tech workers at OpenAI and DeepMind are rebelling against their own overlords—this is an AI civil war, and safety-first camps are rising.
Bores' blueprint? A badass 43-policy framework across eight areas:
- Kids' safety: Age checks, chatbot standards, ban AI child abuse filth.
- Deepfakes & privacy: National data laws, penalties for malicious fakes.
- Workforce: AI job reports, retraining incentives, tax-funded 'AI dividend'.
- Advanced AI: Independent evals, cyber reporting, no arms race.
Critics whine it'll kill innovation. Bull. AI doubles compute yearly—now's the time for rules, lest we hand unchecked power to unaccountable labs. Trump's EO challenging state laws like RAISE? Just more industry pandering. Bores could be only the second Dem in Congress with a CS degree—exactly who we need grilling these Goliaths.
This cash blitz reeks of regulatory capture fears. If Big AI buys off NY-12 (Nadler's seat), expect gutted oversight nationwide. Bores isn't anti-AI; he's pro-America, demanding tech serve the many, not the few. Developers, wake up: your industry's dark money is torching democracy. Back the regulators, or get ready for the fallout.
