Alex Boris

I think there's a lot of fear among elected officials that if they try to regulate this technology, it will be the end of their political career.

When I launched, I thought it would just be a race about New York 12, about the issues that were here.

And three weeks later, on my wedding anniversary, so I remember the specific day, Leading the Future, a super PAC of Trump mega donors, announced that they were going to make me their number one enemy and spend whatever it took to beat me.

They wanted to make an example out of me.

They chose to try to send a message to every member of Congress that the cost of having a say in how AI affects our kids' brains or our jobs or the environment, that cost has to be political destruction.

And so this race has now become a test of that thesis as to whether we can stand up to this force.

You passed the strongest AI safety law in the country.

So I was elected in 2022 to the State Assembly.

I became the first Democrat elected in New York State at any level with a degree in computer science.

A fact that I find 10% cool and 90% horrifying?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

But I use that background, that knowledge to pass laws that actually protect people, right?

And it's not about being pro-innovation or anti-innovation.

It's about shaping the technology so that it actually works for the vast majority of Americans.

And one of the bills in particular that I passed was called the RAISE Act.

Let's again stick with this.

What did you do?

at Palantir?

So I joined during the Obama administration and I worked on civilian federal projects.