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Meet the Congressional Candidate in the AI Industry's Crosshairs | Vanity Fair

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New York congressional candidate Alex Bores on running against a Kennedy scion, balling with Zohran, and why the midterms could be our last shot at stopping a total AI takeover.

Save this story Save this story Alex Bores was phone banking for his upcoming primary the other day when he reached a particularly disgruntled voter. “Are you the Palantir guy? Absolutely not,” she snapped before hanging up. Bores took a deep breath and then tried to appeal to her with a follow-up text. She’d seen the ads , of course, attacking him for his prior employment at the company that’s been dominating headlines for its involvement in ICE raids and bombing in the Middle East—ads that were partly funded, in a twist of truly breathtaking hypocrisy, by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale. (Ve

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