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AI super PACs: Leading the Future and Public First face off over Alex Bores
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This article covers the political battle between two AI-focused super PACs—Leading the Future and Public First—competing in the 2026 election cycle over New York State Assembly candidate Alex Bores, illustrating how AI policy interests are increasingly funding and shaping electoral politics. The piece highlights the growing role of AI industry and advocacy groups in direct electoral intervention through campaign finance.
Key Points
- •Two AI-aligned super PACs, Leading the Future and Public First, are spending money in opposing directions in a New York State Assembly race involving Alex Bores.
- •The race represents an emerging trend of AI-focused political organizations intervening directly in local and state elections to influence AI policy.
- •Alex Bores, the candidate at the center of the conflict, has a background connected to AI and tech policy issues.
- •The clash illustrates internal divisions within the AI policy community over candidates and legislative approaches.
- •This electoral spending reflects broader efforts by AI stakeholders to shape the regulatory and legislative environment at multiple levels of government.
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2026 Election
The AI Super PAC Fight That Might Shape the Midterms
Two opposing super PAC networks plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to help elect more lawmakers who support their side in the AI regulation debate.
Leading the Future released an ad against New York congressional candidate Alex Bores, who co-sponsored the RAISE Act as a state assembly member.
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By Samuel Larreal
January 13, 2026
11:45 AM
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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.
Those views have earned him opposition from Leading the Future, a super PAC network that intends to influence AI policy in Washington and released an ad targeting Bores over his pro-AI regulation stances late last year.
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