{"id":87034,"date":"2026-03-02T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/is-big-tech-buying-the-ai-debate-ny-assemblyman-alex-bores-weighs-in-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:45:10","slug":"is-big-tech-buying-the-ai-debate-ny-assemblyman-alex-bores-weighs-in-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/is-big-tech-buying-the-ai-debate-ny-assemblyman-alex-bores-weighs-in-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Big Tech buying the AI debate? NY Assemblyman Alex Bores weighs in | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across <!--more--> the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to \u201cdoomers versus boomers,\u201d one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road. <\/p>\n<p>On this episode of TechCrunch&#8217;s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Alex Bores, a New York State Assemblymember and candidate for U.S. Congress. Bores sponsored New York&#8217;s first-of-its-kind AI safety law the RAISE Act \u2014 and quickly became the target of a Silicon Valley lobbying group with $125 million to spend on attack ads. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n01:09 &#8211; A New York State Assemblymember vs. Silicon Valley<br \/>\n05:02 &#8211; The RAISE Act explained: What it actually requires<br \/>\n08:25 &#8211; The Leading the Future PAC &amp; why AI companies oppose regulation<br \/>\n10:22 &#8211; Public First Action: The pro-regulation PAC<br \/>\n13:19 &#8211; The Effective Altruism boogeyman<br \/>\n16:47 &#8211; Meta&#8217;s $65M spend on Pro-AI and California-focused PACs<br \/>\n18:27 &#8211; Will AI regulation look like banking or stay wild like social media?<br \/>\n19:25 &#8211; Upcoming bills: Training data disclosure &amp; deepfakes<br \/>\n20:38 &#8211; Outro <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}