Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC

Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign by a pro-AI super PAC to thwart his bid for Congress. The group, Leading the Future, is armed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

Bores’ answer was simple: bring it on. Now he has the strength to take on that challenge.

Public First Action, a PAC supported by a $20 million donation from Anthropicis spending $450,000 to boost Bores in the race for New York’s 12th congressional district, reports Bloomberg. Like its rival, the committee is pro-AI, but it presents a different vision, one focused on transparency, safety standards and public oversight.

Meanwhile, the industry-backed PAC Leading the Future has already poured $1.1 million into ads attacking Bores, largely because he sponsored New York’s RAISE Act, which requires major AI developers to publicly disclose security protocols and report serious misuse of their systems.