Odd Lots

Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop

December 18, 2025·47 min·5-min readconversationaltechnology
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New York State Assembly member Alex Bores, a former Palantir data scientist and proponent of AI safety regulation, discusses his RAYS Act — a bill imposing safety standards on frontier AI labs — which has made him the primary target of a $10 million anti-regulation super PAC backed by fig

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Alex Bores

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People

Alex BoresJoe WeisenthalTracy Alloway

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PalantirOpenAIDeepSeek

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RAYS ActC2PA

Topics

Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityData EngineeringLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningUs Politics

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