Alex Bores and Anna Myers Launch Who Decides, a $30 Million Effort to Build the Winning Democratic Answer to AI
A new political organization plans to spend $30 million building support for artificial-intelligence safety policies among Democratic constituencies ahead of the 2028 elections.
Who Decides, founded by New York State Assemblymember Alex Bores and political strategist Anna Myers, said it will work with labor unions, parent and educator groups, civil-rights organizations, faith communities and local organizations to develop shared AI policy priorities and press candidates to adopt them.
The group intends to organize in 11 early-primary and battleground states: South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Its first-year plans include listening sessions, state and national polling, twice-yearly national gatherings and candidate engagement through questionnaires, forums, policy briefings and endorsements.
Who Decides said it aims to establish an AI-safety standard that Democratic candidates will be expected to meet, with the longer-term goal of having candidates run on a common agenda by 2028. The organization said it will not take corporate funding or contributions from senior executives at frontier AI companies.
Bores and Myers are drawing on their work around New York’s RAISE Act, legislation authored by Bores that requires the largest frontier AI developers to publish safety plans and report critical safety incidents, according to the organization. Who Decides said the measure was backed by more than 70 organizations, including labor groups, advocacy organizations, startups and AI researchers.
Bores also recently ran for Congress in New York’s 12th District on a platform that included AI regulation. Who Decides said an industry-backed super PAC spent roughly $10 million opposing his campaign, which he lost narrowly.
Myers, the group’s executive director, previously served as Bores’ chief of staff in the New York Assembly and as a senior adviser to his congressional campaign. Bores will serve as board president.
The group’s strategy centers on treating concerns over workplace displacement, children’s use of AI tools, discrimination and advanced-system safety as connected political issues. It said its work is intended to help Democratic officials enter a future administration with policy priorities and coalition support already in place.