News Summary

• A pro-AI super PAC has chosen New York Assembly member Alex Bores as its first target.
• The PAC, dubbed Leading the Future, formed in August with a more than $100 million commitment to support policymakers with a light-touch approach to AI regulation.
• Bores is the chief sponsor of New York’s bipartisan RAISE Act, which requires large AI labs to have a safety plan in place to prevent critical harms.
• The bill also prohibits AI firms from releasing models with unreasonable risks of critical harm and imposes civil penalties of up to $30 million if companies fail to live up to these standards.