The Anthropic-backed group supports candidates defeated by fellow AI super PAC

Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a pro-AI super PAC campaign to block his bid for Congress. Group, Leading the Futurehas more than $100 million in funding from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, founder of AI search engine Perplexity, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

Bores’ answer was simple: bring it. Now, he has the pockets to back up that argument.

Public First Action, PAC supported by a $20 million donation from Anthropicspending $450,000 to boost Bores in New York’s 12th district race, reports Bloomberg. Like its opponent, the committee is pro-AI, but it offers an alternative vision, one that focuses on transparency, safety standards, and public oversight.

Meanwhile, the industry-backed PAC, Leading the Futurehas already poured $1.1 million into ads attacking Bores, mostly because he supported it New York’s RAISE Act, which requires major AI developers to disclose security policies and show serious flaws in their systems.