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New York City\u2019s 12th Congressional District, in its many forms over the past century or so, has a rich history of influencing the national discourse. This was the Manhattan district that sent the great Socialist Party stalwart Meyer London to Washington before and after World War I. When it was redrawn into Brooklyn, it elected first Edna Kelly, the pioneering champion of \u201cequal pay for equal work\u201d protections for women, and then Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to mount a serious bid for the presidency. More recently, again as a primarily Manhattan-based district, it was represented by Carolyn Maloney, a chair of the House Oversight Committee and a steady champion of the Equal Rights Amendment and the Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum. Now it is represented by Jerry Nadler, the great advocate for civil liberties, LGBTQ+ rights, and social justice, and the longtime top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which he chaired during both of Donald Trump\u2019s impeachments.<\/p>\n

Read more The Battle for Black Brooklyn<\/a><\/p>\n

So it comes as no surprise that, with Nadler stepping down, the primary to replace him in the overwhelmingly Democratic district is shaping up as a referendum on where the Democratic Party, Congress, and the nation should head.<\/p>\n

Or, to be more precise, several referendums.<\/p>\n

Backers of New York State Assembly member Micah Lasher, a former aide to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Nadler who has the endorsement of both men and many of the influential Democratic clubs in the district, wouldn\u2019t mind if the race were seen as a referendum on whether to maintain the retiring incumbent\u2019s detail-oriented committee work and liberal advocacy.<\/p>\n

For supporters of George Conway, the former Republican lawyer who in 2018 emerged as one of the president\u2019s sharpest critics and has remained so ever since, the primary offers an opportunity to issue an unmistakable call to \u201cbring back rule of law to our government and hold Trump and the GOP accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Nina Schwalbe, a well-regarded healthcare researcher who has worked with UNICEF and USAID, this is a chance for Democrats to elect a policy expert with plans for strengthening the country\u2019s existing public health infrastructure while advancing a practical agenda for \u201cincrementally lowering Medicare eligibility until all Americans are covered.\u201d<\/p>\n

For influencer and activist John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg\u2014though you can call him \u201cJack\u201d\u2014this is, fairly or not, a test of whether the Kennedy name retains the magic that made his grandfather president and two of his uncles serious contenders for the job. (Schlossberg\u2019s mother, Caroline Kennedy, just weighed in with a TV ad that suggested President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and former US Senator Edward Kennedy would be proud of the bid.)<\/p>\n

All of those considerations are worthy of note in a congressional race. But none of them has generated the attention as the fight surrounding the other major contender in the contest, New York State Assembly member Alex Bores.<\/p>\n

Bores\u2014who, along with Lasher, has emerged as something of a front-runner in the race\u2014is the central figure in a very different kind of referendum: what The New York Times<\/em> refers to as an \u201cAI Proxy Fight\u201d and The Wall Street Journal<\/em> describes as \u201ca Bitter AI War.\u201d<\/p>\n

At issue are separate but obviously intersecting questions about whether and how to regulate artificial intelligence, at a moment when polling shows that half of Americans fear AI will put someone they know (or, presumably, themselves) out of work, and according to a new Johns Hopkins University survey, \u201cMost Americans, even those who most appreciate artificial intelligence, strongly support more regulation of it.\u201d Specifically: \u201cMore than 70% of Americans want the right to interact with a human rather than an AI in medical, legal, educational, and government settings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bores, a computer scientist by training, favors meaningful regulation. And he has a record of enacting it. As a member of the New York legislature, Bores and Democratic state Senator Andrew Gournardes championed what the congressional candidate describes as \u201cthe strongest AI safety law in the country.\u201d That measure, the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, was approved last year and requires the largest artificial intelligence developers to develop safety plans and incident-reporting standards \u201cto protect against automated crime, bioweapons and other widespread harm and risks to public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bores says he wanted to develop \u201ca bill at the state level because nothing was happening at the federal level.\u201d That federal vacuum\u2014at a time when President Trump spent much of 2025 cheerleading for the agenda of the worst players in the AI industry, and when congressional Democrats were largely silent\u2014meant that the New York bill and its sponsor got a lot of national attention. \u201cTime<\/em> magazine named me one of the 100 most influential people in the world in AI, on a list with [Meta founder and CEO] Mark Zuckerberg and [Open AI CEO] Sam Altman and the pope,\u201d notes Bores. \u201cThere were only two other elected officials on it. They were both US senators: [Tennessee Republican] Marsha Blackburn and [Connecticut Democrat] Chris Murphy.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this has changed the character of Bores\u2019s bid to replace Nadler. In many senses, he is still running a conventional progressive campaign, one that has attracted strong support from organized labor\u2014including the New York State AFL-CIO and powerful New York Unions such as AFSCME\u2019s DC37, the United Federation of Teachers, and UAW Region 9A\u2014and LGBTQ+ groups such as Equality New York and the Stonewall Democrats of New York. But Bores, whose campaign website features a New York Times<\/em> headline that identifies him as \u201cA Congressional Candidate Feared by the Tech Oligarchs,\u201d has become overwhelmingly associated with the broader fight over the future of AI. And it\u2019s a fight he seems eager to engage with.<\/p>\n

Bores is proposing a detailed . I don\u2019t necessarily align with every aspect of the plan, but, as someone who has written about the intersection of tech and politics for many years, I can attest that it is a good deal more comprehensive than anything most members of Congress have produced\u2014or even imagined.<\/p>\n

That has made the NY-12 campaign a battleground where tech giants are spending obscene amounts of money to influence not just a result on primary day but also a debate about whether and how federal regulators should address AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngered by Bores\u2019 legislation regulating artificial intelligence, a political group underwritten by investors in OpenAI spent more than $7 million on ads designed to crush the former computer engineer, who\u2019s running in the ultracompetitive June 23 Democratic primary for a Manhattan-based U.S. House district,\u201d explains the Associated Press. \u201cThat group, Leading the Future, counts titans of Silicon Valley, major venture capitalists and alumni of President Donald Trump\u2019s Republican administration (including Trump donors like OpenAI President Greg Brockman, venture capitalist Marc Andreesen and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale) among its donors.\u2026 But, then, another wing of Silicon Valley rode to Bores\u2019 rescue. Political groups partly funded by Anthropic, the maker of the chatbot Claude, have spent more than $10 million boosting Bores\u2019 campaign. Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, an Anthropic investor, has pledged another $3.5 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some media outlets have suggested that this is merely \u201ca family feud\u201d between AI investors. But it goes deeper than that. As Morten Bay, an award-winning research fellow at the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, told the AP, \u201cThe lines are being drawn, and this primary is very much an expression of that. The core divide is regulation\u2014whether you\u2019re for or against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: \u2018Dr. Strangelove\u2019 as \u2018a Cold Blade of Scorn Against the Spectator\u2019s Throat\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

For my part, I don\u2019t want OpenAI, or Palantir, or<\/em> Anthropic to tell Americans how to regulate AI. Anthropic may currently have a milder public image than other tech giants\u2014especially since its cofounder Christopher Olah joined Pope Leo XIV for the unveiling of the pope\u2019s powerful encyclical on AI and capitalism, Magnifica Humanitas<\/em>\u2014but it is still investing heavily in the data center developments that have raised bipartisan alarm in communities nationwide, and its technology is still reportedly being used by the US military to kill people overseas. And we should all be profoundly unsettled by the way that money from AI giants has overwhelmed the discourse in this district and so many others across the country.<\/p>\n

But there is little question that, as Charlotte Alter, the veteran political writer who now writes the New Humanism Project<\/em> blog on Substack, says of the NY-12 race, \u201cThis is basically the <\/em>bellwether race for whether America asserts any <\/em>regulatory control over AI or whether AI oligarchs will simply own our system of government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, as Bores says, \u201cThis campaign is really a test about whether our democratic institutions can govern this technology before it ends up governing us.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Bores wins the primary, it has the potential to clarify and perhaps even transform the federal debate about regulating artificial intelligence. On the other hand, if he loses, Bores and others fear that cautious Democrats\u2014in New York and nationally\u2014could be even less likely to stand up to the AI tech billionaires.<\/p>\n

Those are the stakes, as Bores sees them\u2014not just because he is facing an onslaught of negative messaging from the industry he proposes to regulate but also because of the prospect that, in a Congress where few members are up to speed on AI, he could serve as a member who understands both the technical and the political sides of the issue. \u201cObviously, in the AI conversation, I\u2019m going to come in with just a huge megaphone,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I win the primary, having defeated the super PAC that is trying to intimidate every other member of Congress, and having defeated their promised $10 million against me, yes, then that gives me a voice\u2014not only because I\u2019m coming in having run and won (on the regulation issue),\u201d he explains. \u201cBut because maybe I can help show other members of Congress how you can stand up on what is objectively a very popular issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bores and his supporters point to several reasons for why this is so.<\/p>\n

For one thing, Bores has an uncommon r\u00e9sum\u00e9 for a potential member of Congress. A fifth-generation New Yorker who grew up in a union family, he earned an undergraduate degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell and a master\u2019s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2014with a specialization in machine learning. He worked for economic consulting and tech start-ups in the early stages of an AI revolution that is only coming to be understood by political elites, media commentators, and an increasingly concerned electorate.<\/p>\n

Bores also had a stint at the notorious tech firm Palantir. That work has led to a bizarre twist in the current campaign that was well summed up by a headline from the tech journal Fast Company<\/em>: \u201cA Palantir cofounder is backing a group attacking Alex Bores over his work with\u2026 Palantir.\u201d<\/p>\n

While hostile ads \u201callege that Bores made hundreds of thousands of dollars building and selling technology for the agency,\u201d and try to tie him to the company\u2019s current work with ICE, Fast Company<\/em> explains:<\/p>\n

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Inside Palantir, the ads are starting to irk some employees. Two current employees and three former employees tell Fast Company<\/em> that they view the campaign as opportunistic. Some believe the ads misrepresent Bores\u2019s record at the company. Others say Palantir\u2019s approach to its work with ICE has changed since Bores left the company many years ago. Several employees said they see the ads as less about immigration enforcement and more about politics within the tech industry. They point to the PAC funding the campaign, Leading the Future, as evidence that the effort is primarily about countering Bores\u2019s support for AI regulation. That view is shared by one former Biden administration staffer who, speaking on condition of anonymity, emphasized that the ad campaign was \u201calmost certainly\u201d a response to Bores\u2019s role as a lead sponsor of an AI safety bill in New York.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It may also have something to do with the fact that AI regulation is becoming an increasingly important dividing line in our politics. While few places are experiencing campaigns like the one playing out in the 12th\u2014where AI has come up in debates and where other candidates have felt compelled to outline their own regulation agendas\u2014these issues will only become more central as AI deepens its grip on our lives.<\/p>\n

Bores says the campaign has turned into \u201ca live focus group\u201d on concerns about AI. What he\u2019s hearing is that many people are \u201cterrified\u201d by the speed with which technological change is already remaking their lives\u2014and could remake them more substantially in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cEighty percent of Americans are like: \u2018Sure, I see some benefits. It could be exciting for medical research. I use it to do A, B and C. But what does it mean for my kids? What does it mean for my job? What does it mean for the environment?\u2019\u201d explains Bores, who says people tell him: \u201cThis is moving so fast. There need to be some guardrails.\u2026 Why do we not have a say? Why is Congress not doing anything here?\u201d<\/p>\n

At a point when AI is evolving at breakneck speed, and threatens to overwhelm our workplaces, our communities and our lives, those are questions that Americans in every congressional district should be thinking about. What distinguishes the race in NY-12 is that the issue is front and center. It has been ugly and, at times, confusing, and Bores does not doubt that part of the attack on him is designed to scare other Democrats who might be inclined to champion AI regulation with the threat that billionaire tech giants are prepared to make things \u201cpainful\u201d for them. But he argues, \u201cThis a campaign with a chance to beat the machines, both artificial and political. And, you know, we can be team humanity in both regards, letting voters actually pick their elected representatives instead of being told who to vote for by either the establishment or by a bunch of Trump mega donors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more How Children Became a City\u2019s Lead Detectors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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