Alex Bores Wants Democrats to Make AI Safety a 2028 Election Issue
New York state assemblyman Alex Bores, who ran on AI regulation and lost a congressional primary, is working to make AI safety a central Democratic issue heading into the 2028 presidential election cycle.
Why this matters: Most politicians treat AI as a tech story. Bores is betting it becomes a kitchen-table issue by 2028. That shift matters because AI safety policy, if it ever gets real political weight, stops being written only by the industry it is supposed to constrain. Whether voters actually care enough to make it decisive is the open question. But the politicians who frame the issue early tend to shape what the rules end up looking like.
Who should care: Lawyers · Compliance · General readers · AI governance · Policy
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