OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Palantir's Joe Lonsdale, and a16z are funding a super PAC to defeat NY assemblyman Alex Bores, who authored New York's RAISE Act.
Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee turned NY assemblyman, co-sponsored New York's RAISE Act — signed into law in 2025 — which requires major AI firms to publish safety protocols for their models. Now a super PAC called 'Leading the Future,' funded by OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and Andreessen Horowitz, has launched an aggressive campaign to stop Bores from winning a Congressional primary. The primary field also includes Jack Schlossberg and George Conway. This is one of the most direct examples of AI industry money being deployed to neutralize a specific regulator-turned-politician.
New York's RAISE Act already passed. If you're shipping AI models to New York users or working at a company with New York operations, the law requires documented safety protocols — this isn't theoretical. The industry's PAC spending reveals that Big Tech sees this legislation as existential enough to spend millions fighting its author, which signals the rules will get stricter, not looser, as more states follow New York's lead.
Pull up the RAISE Act text this week and map your current model documentation against its safety protocol requirements — identify the gap before your legal team does.
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