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A Congressional Candidate Feared by the Tech Oligarchs

If I were a voter in New York’s 12th Congressional District, a recent attack ad against the candidate Alex Bores might make me think twice about considering him. Bores, a 35-year-old member of the New York Assembly, is a reliably progressive candidate in the coming Democratic primary to succeed the liberal stalwart Jerry Nadler, who is retiring. But the spot, paid for by a political action committee called Think Big, points out something seemingly sinister in Bores’s past: A former data scientist, he led a government team at the tech giant Palantir until 2019, while the company was working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “ICE is powered by Bores’s tech,” says the ad, as anxious electronic music plays and images of paramilitaries in the street flash onscreen.

The people behind Think Big know that A.I., ICE and Palantir are all very unpopular with New York City Democrats. So they probably don’t want you to know that the PAC is part of a dark-money network funded by Donald Trump megadonors seeking unfettered A.I. development.

Think Big is an affiliate of Leading the Future, a super PAC that has raised over $100 million from figures including a Palantir co-founder, Joe Lonsdale; the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen; and OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman. Their goal is to take down politicians who want to put guardrails around A.I., and they’re happy to exploit public suspicion of the technology to do it. Bores is their first target. The PAC has already spent $1 million to try to make an example of him.

That’s because Bores, who says he resigned from Palantir over its work with ICE, has made regulating A.I. a centerpiece of his campaign. “I think Congress is just missing the boat right now, the same way we missed it on social media,” he told me. “Some combination of not having people that actually understand it, not having people that are willing to stand up to mistruths and the power of the industry, has just led to a place where we have no protection as Americans.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/alex-bores-ai-democrats.html?

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