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5 min readIn 2025, New York State Assemblymember Alex Bores—a computer engineer by training and the first Democrat elected to any level of New York office with a computer science degree—sponsored the RAISE Act, the country’s strongest frontier AI safety law. The response from Silicon Valley was immediate and aggressive: a super PAC funded by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman spent $8 million on attack ads targeting him. When asked why, Bores says the message was clear: “They wanted to send a message that no one should try to regulate AI.” Now, after a surprisingly strong but unsuccessful run for Manhattan’s open House seat, Bores has co-founded a nonprofit called Who Decides, aimed at giving the public a voice in how AI develops and shaping how Democratic candidates and voters think about the technology.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (08:00) **Alex Bores: Background and Path to AI Regulation** - Alex explains his atypical background in tech (Palantir, startups) and how he entered politics to fix bad policy upstream.
- 2 (09:13) **Why AI Became His Central Campaign Issue** - Alex reveals AI was thrust upon him as a political issue after a super PAC targeted him, not his original plan.
- 3 (12:49) **The Contradiction: Begging for Regulation vs. Fighting It** - Alex dissects the confusing shift where AI companies now ask for regulation after fighting his efforts.
- 4 (14:38) **Basic Guardrails for Catastrophic AI Risk** - Alex outlines concrete, non-controversial starting points for AI safety regulation.
- 5 (16:18) **Inside the AI Labs: Fear, CapEx, or Regulatory Capture?** - Alex weighs the competing theories for why companies are slowing down: genuine worry, financial pressure from massive CapEx, or strategic capture.
- 6 (23:14) **The Core Problem: Total Lack of Accountability** - The host presses on the absence of consequences, contrasting it with Boeing's grounded planes and lost CEO.
- 7 (25:36) **Who Is Liable? Developer vs. User** - Alex discusses the critical question of where liability should lie for AI actions.
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Show Notes
Ed Elson and Scott Galloway are joined by Alex Bores to discuss what the path toward AI regulation could look like and the specific actions he believes are needed to reduce the potential catastrophic risks posed by AI. He also explains who should be held accountable, explores the role of third-party audits in regulating AI, addresses the data center concerns he believes policymakers should prioritize, and weighs in on which states are taking the right approach to AI regulation.
Alex Bores is the co-founder of Who Decides, a new organization working to give the public a voice in how AI develops and build a shared Democratic approach to the technology.
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