Showing posts with label Micah Lasher. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Even in Defeat, a Democrat Showed the Upside of Angering the A.I. Industry; The New York Times, June 24, 2026

 , The New York Times; Even in Defeat, a Democrat Showed the Upside of Angering the A.I. Industry

Alex Bores’s close loss in New York could pave the way for other Democrats to take political advantage of being attacked by the increasingly unpopular A.I. industry.

"The New York race — the first in the country to draw such large amounts of money from A.I. interests — signaled the battles to come over an industry that has quickly grown more unpopular with voters but has astronomical sums of money it can use to shape how it is regulated.

Mr. Bores’s respectable showing demonstrated how tech-skeptical Democratic candidates might be able to exploit the political liabilities of the A.I. industry, which is engaged in a midterm proxy war between two of its top companies, Anthropic and OpenAI, and their allied super PACs."