Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The politics of AI are already exploding. Whether we're talking about data centers, electricity prices, labor displacement, water consumption, competition with China, or users of chatbots becoming psychotically obsessed, AI is already a major topic in elections. And since there's so much money at stake, the industry is already spinning up super PACs and lobbying arms. Last month, it was reported that a new $100 million AI-industry super PAC called Leading the Future would be directly targeting Alex Bores, a Democrat who is running for his party's nomination for New York's 12th congressional district. Why target Bores? Well, as an New York assemblymember, he has led the push for the regulation of AI at the state level. The industry, of course, views state-level regulation as an existential threat to their business. So on this episode we speak with Alex about how he views AI and the optimal approach to regulation. Alex also has a tech background, and so we talk about the technology more broadly, as well as other issues in contemporary politics.
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| 0:27.5 | Bloomberg Audio Studios. Podcasts Radio News. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast. I'm Joe Wisentholm. |
| 0:47.2 | And I'm Tracy Allaway. You know, obviously we've been talking about, I think, 2028. It's going to be a big election for AI. |
| 0:53.2 | Really, 26. Actually, now, |
| 0:55.2 | you know, it's not really even a prediction. This is just a description of fact, |
| 0:59.2 | AI is going to be very big for politics. Yeah, I think it's inescapable at this point. AI is sort |
| 1:04.4 | of dominating the news cycle as well. I know it's a running joke on the podcast, but every time |
| 1:10.0 | we record an AI-related episode, |
| 1:13.5 | another headline hits the terminal about some new billion-dollar billions. |
| 1:18.5 | And what's the one that we just got? |
| 1:20.3 | Disney to make $1 billion equity investment in Open AI. |
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| 1:28.8 | there's some headline about a new investment, which just goes to show. But, you know, the fact that |
| 1:34.2 | it's going to dominate politics is the least surprising thing ever because it touches on everything. |
| 1:39.1 | Anything that's politically sensitive, the labor market, right? That's the obvious big one. |
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