What Alex Bores’s New York Defeat Reveals About the Fight Over A.I. Money in Politics - The New York Times
Alex Bores’s close loss in New York could pave the way for other Democrats to take political advantage of being attacked by the increasingly unpopular A.I. industry. By Theodore Schleifer The House candidate Alex Bores was dining on eggplant at a vegan restaurant in November with his wife, Darya, as they celebrated their anniversary when he got a phone call with some unloving news: A super PAC with over $100 million wanted to crush his campaign. The super PAC, backed by the artificial intelligence industry, was planning attack ads against Mr. Bores. He stepped out of his dinner at Cadence in the East Village of New York and reviewed a statement his team had drafted in response. He wanted it to be even more fiery — and largely rewrote it himself, according to two people close to his campaign who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Mr. Bores, a state legislator who had worked on A.I. regulation, sought to make himself a sympathetic victim of the A.I. in