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Former Palantir engineer-turned New York state Assemblymember Alex Bores knows Americans want AI regulation. He co-authored the RAISE Act, New York\u2019s frontier AI safety law. He ran this year for Rep. Jerry Nadler\u2019s open congressional seat on that platform, even as many of his donors came from within the AI industry. But that didn\u2019t stop Leading the Future, a super PAC funded in part by OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, from spending more than $7.6 million against him over that law. Public First Action, with $20 million from Anthropic, spent on the race in Bores\u2019 corner. Total outside money in the race topped $40 million, the most expensive House primary of the cycle. Bores still lost.<\/p>\n

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That loss helped lead to Who Decides, the nonprofit Bores launched on Tuesday with his former chief of staff, Anna Myers. So far, it has raised $10 million and aims to raise $20 million more in 2027, for a $30 million total ahead of 2028. Bores intends the nonprofit to unite the AI advocacy organizations Democrats already trust, help them build out their own agendas rather than hand them one, and establish \u201ca shared floor of an agenda on things that we all want to see good done.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cGive the American people a say in how AI develops,\u201d Bores told Fortune. <\/em> \u201cMost voters have an answer key in their head for every question that they ask\u201d on issues like Medicare or the Green New Deal. But with AI, Bores said, even the messaging lives in this gray area. \u201cWe\u2019re in this limited time where it\u2019s not even just the answers that are up for grabs, but even the questions that are being asked are up for grabs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The RAISE Act, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul passed into law late last year following a tenuous time in Albany, necessitated a coalition of 55 organizations, filled with different stakeholders from AI policy to chatbots in school. That wasn\u2019t the case for those against the act. \u201cThe opposition was always the same. It was a small subset of Silicon Valley that thinks there should be no regulation on AI whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s part of what drove Bores to create Who Decides. The group isn\u2019t trying to outspend Leading the Future or Build American AI\u2014Bores said he wishes he had the resources. Instead, it\u2019s targeting 11 battleground states through organizations already active there. Outreach accelerated after Jacob Coxon\u2019s resignation from Anthropic last week. \u201cThe seven major presidential candidates since my election, the 16 Congress members since last week,\u201d Bores said of Coxon\u2019s resignation. So far everyone who\u2019s reached out has been a Democrat, though Bores said he\u2019s open ears for anyone, regardless of political ideology.<\/p>\n

Weak laws and weaker willpower<\/h2>\n

A recent Gallup poll found the majority of Americans, 56% to 58%, want stricter gun laws, while measures like background checks has close to 90% support in both parties, per Pew. And despite this finding, which has coexisted for decades, Congress rarely acts, something usually blamed on lobbying outspending a diffuse majority. AI seems to follow the same trajectory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe basics of this issue, while the urgency has changed a lot in the past week, the basics have not, which is that 80% of Americans want there to be more regulation on AI, and that\u2019s across parties,\u201d he said. Independent polling this year puts the figure somewhat lower but still in the same direction: a February\u2013March 2026 Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found 65% of Americans say the government has done \u201ctoo little\u201d to regulate AI, including majorities of Democrats (77%), independents (72%), and Republicans (53%).<\/p>\n

Public sentiment gets grayer when you look at one of the most prominent faces within the AI industry. In May 2023, OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman asked to be regulated when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But by May 2025, he reversed course, telling the Senate Commerce Committee that requiring government approval would be \u201cdisastrous.\u201d Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei held the pro-regulation position throughout, even as Anthropic-linked money flowed into the same political fights.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what stances people have at first and ultimately land on, Bores said while industry figures keep landing on the same conclusion, a narrower set of financiers spend to stop it. \u201cSo many of the mega donors who are pushing for there to be no regulation whatsoever are Republican mega donors,\u201d he said, naming Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

One can argue that\u2019s what happened to his RAISE Act\u2014what passed was a watered version that didn\u2019t survive that same money intact: third-party audits and whistleblower protections were stripped before it passed. But still, that hasn\u2019t changed Bores\u2019 view of it: \u201cThe RAISE Act was, arguably still is, the strongest AI safety bill in the country,\u201d he said, though he expects Illinois and Massachusetts to surpass it soon.<\/p>\n

Avoid the circular firing squad<\/h2>\n

In 2025, Sen. Ted Cruz inserted language into the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d that would have barred every state from enforcing any AI law for 10 years. Seventeen Republican governors asked for it to be stripped, before the Senate voted 99\u20131 to remove it.<\/p>\n

Cruz is now co-sponsoring a new federal AI safety bill with Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Majority Leader John Thune, built around safety testing and incident reporting. It may be D.C.\u2019s most likely AI bill to pass yet, but if you read between the lines, it\u2019s essentially Cruz\u2019s old bill wrapped in federal packaging (and it comes with the very real possibility of removing all state AI bills with it). \u201cSpot on,\u201d he told Fortune <\/em>about that reading. \u201cIt\u2019s people trying to use this momentum and this crisis to shut down the real power people have to regulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the external politics playing on Capitol Hill, Bores also acknowledged the Democratic party has a less than stellar track record on getting messaging right. Often it\u2019s because advocates who agree keep splitting the difference into separate fights. \u201cDemocrats are very passionate about making a difference, and that passion is usually well placed,\u201d he said, \u201cbut that occasionally gets misdirected into turning into a circular firing squad and saying, no, my sub-issue is more important than your sub-issue.\u201d <\/p>\n

His case? \u201cThe people who are opposing almost every issue in AI are the same people\u2026 we should be sitting at the same table.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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