Humanitarian-funded group supports candidate attacked by rival AI Super PAC

Late last year, New York Assemblyman Alex Burris became the target of a campaign by a pro-AI super PAC to thwart his bid for Congress. group, Leading the futurearmed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI chief Greg Brockman, AI research startup Perplexity, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

Boris’s response was simple: Bring it. Now, he has the muscle to back up this challenge.

Public Action I, a political action committee supported by A $20 million donation from Anthropicis spending $450,000 to support Boris in the race for New York’s 12th Congressional District, reports said Bloomberg. Like its competitor, the committee is pro-AI, but it presents a different vision, one centered on transparency, safety standards and public oversight.

Meanwhile, the industry-backed PAC, Leading the futurehas already poured $1.1 million into ads attacking Boris, largely due to his sponsorship RAISE LAW IN NEW YORK, Which requires major AI developers to disclose security protocols and report serious misuse of their systems.