AI is already changing our jobs, our kids’ lives, our bills, and our safety. Right now too many of the biggest decisions are being made by a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires. Who Decides is building the public and political power to put people back in the room.
Five commitments that turn local concern about AI into a national agenda that candidates and officials answer to.
Work nationally and build local coalitions across 11 early-primary and swing states.
Help the organizations Americans already trust develop agendas they own, then identify a shared floor on AI safety, jobs, kids, accountability, and other issues.
Carry those priorities into candidate questionnaires, forums, endorsements, and governing agendas.
Produce quarterly polling that explains why people feel what they feel, not just how many feel it.
Convene leaders who do not usually sit at the same table and serve as a reliable, on-call resource when AI questions arise.
65%
of Americans think that people like them should have a say in AI policy. 25% think they have it.
79%
of Americans say AI is being added to their workplace, their kids’ school, their healthcare, or some other meaningful part of their life without their input.
86%
of Americans believe that the lack of regulation of AI is a bigger problem than AI development moving too slowly.
Co-Founder and Board President
As a New York State Assemblymember, Alex authored the RAISE Act. To pass that bill, he and his team put together a massive coalition of dozens of groups, very few of which had ever done advocacy around existential risk, and overcame millions in lobbying against it. Since his run for Congress in NY-12, he has become the go-to reference for legislators throughout the country who want to work on AI issues.
Co-Founder and Executive Director
For more than a decade, Anna has built the coalitions and operations that turn ambitious ideas into durable organizations, companies, and campaigns. As Alex Bores’ Chief of Staff in the New York Assembly, she helped build and hold together the diverse coalition that passed New York’s RAISE Act. At Who Decides, Anna leads coalition building and organizing across states, turning local concerns about AI into coordinated political action.
New York’s congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to be the moment AI’s top backers definitively proved they could bend US politics to their will. Instead, they left behind a muddy stalemate that only raises more questions about whether their spending can keep pace with an anti-AI backlash.
By Eric Levitz
Alex’s close loss showed how Democrats could “take political advantage of being attacked by the increasingly unpopular A.I. industry.”
By Theodore Schleifer
The New York State assemblymember has emerged as an inspiration and a source of ideas for state lawmakers nationwide who are pushing for rules to rein in AI, despite losing a congressional primary in June under an $8 million barrage of pro-tech attacks.
By Brendan Bordelon
So why is a co-founder of Palantir, Joe Lonsdale, in this case, funding a super PAC to try to destroy Bores? The reason is that Leading the Future is a super PAC dedicated to destroying anyone who might regulate the tech industry, in general, or A.I., specifically, in a way these funders don’t like.
Alex Bores is a Democratic candidate for Congress, and AI super PACs are coming for him. That’s because at the center of his platform is a plan to regulate and legislate AI. He tells Laura Coates why this is the issue voters need to be focused on.
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