An artificial intelligence industry PAC plans to pour over $100 million into this year’s midterm elections in hopes of getting more industry-friendly lawmakers into office, but the path to an AI-friendly Congress might not be an easy one.
Its first target is Alex Bores, a Democrat running to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York.
The state Assembly member, a former Palantir engineer, successfully pushed the RAISE Act, one of the first state-level AI safety laws. If elected to the House, he wants to create more safety regulations for AI development, chatbots and data centers.