“A super political action committee aimed at taking down elected officials who want to regulate artificial intelligence has chosen its first target for destruction.
The Leading the Future PAC is going after Alex Bores, a Democrat who is currently running to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District.
The PAC, which is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, and other AI heavyweights, has singled out Bores’ cosponsorship of the AI-regulating RAISE Act as justification to end his political ambitions.
According to *CNBC*, the bill cosponsored by Bores would force large AI firms “to publish safety protocols for serious misuse… of their tech, such as creating biological weapons or carrying out other criminal activity,” and also “to disclose serious incidents, or else face civil penalties from the state attorney general.”
Bores responded to news that he was being targeted by the pro-AI PAC with defiance, and he said it showed why his push to regulate the big AI firms was so important.
“The ‘exact profile’ they want to go after is someone with a Masters in Computer Science, two patents, and nearly a decade working in tech,” he wrote in a post on X. “If they are scared of people who understand their business regulating their business, they are telling on themselves.”
KultofEnnui on
Oh, wow, the AI grifters are really afraid of that bubble bursting, huh?
namezam on
I don’t know enough about this topic to know what side I come down on but that first sentence is a maga tactic that needs to die. I hear shit like that I just tune out – “someone doesn’t like what I’m doing so I must be right” BS
OddBottle8064 on
I don’t understand the desire to “regulate AI”. What about it do you want regulated?
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“A super political action committee aimed at taking down elected officials who want to regulate artificial intelligence has chosen its first target for destruction.
The Leading the Future PAC is going after Alex Bores, a Democrat who is currently running to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District.
The PAC, which is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, and other AI heavyweights, has singled out Bores’ cosponsorship of the AI-regulating RAISE Act as justification to end his political ambitions.
According to *CNBC*, the bill cosponsored by Bores would force large AI firms “to publish safety protocols for serious misuse… of their tech, such as creating biological weapons or carrying out other criminal activity,” and also “to disclose serious incidents, or else face civil penalties from the state attorney general.”
Bores responded to news that he was being targeted by the pro-AI PAC with defiance, and he said it showed why his push to regulate the big AI firms was so important.
“The ‘exact profile’ they want to go after is someone with a Masters in Computer Science, two patents, and nearly a decade working in tech,” he wrote in a post on X. “If they are scared of people who understand their business regulating their business, they are telling on themselves.”
Oh, wow, the AI grifters are really afraid of that bubble bursting, huh?
I don’t know enough about this topic to know what side I come down on but that first sentence is a maga tactic that needs to die. I hear shit like that I just tune out – “someone doesn’t like what I’m doing so I must be right” BS
I don’t understand the desire to “regulate AI”. What about it do you want regulated?