NEW YORK — Assemblymember Alex Bores and his allies spent months framing his congressional campaign as a battle of powerful tech interests vs. everyday people when it comes to regulating artificial intelligence.
As the race was called for fellow Assemblymember Micah Lasher on Tuesday night, on the surface, it seemed like the Big Tech won. Major industry players spent millions targeting Bores, who finished in second place, in part because of his work spearheading one of the country’s landmark laws establishing guardrails for AI.
But Bores saw it differently.
“We came within a whisker of winning it,” he told POLITICO. “I think it shows that the…
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