Bores launches Who Decides with $10 million after RAISE Act loss

Bores' move into nonprofit organizing follows a bruising and expensive congressional primary, one in which he ran on the platform of the RAISE Act he co-authored. That law, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul passed into law late last year following a tenuous time in Albany, required a coalition of 55 organizations spanning AI policy to chatbots in school, while Bores says the opposition was a small subset of Silicon Valley that thinks there should be no regulation on AI whatsoever.

He now argues that the people opposing almost every AI issue are the same people, and that advocates should be sitting at the same table rather than splitting into a circular firing squad over sub-issues. The public-opinion backdrop he cites is mixed: he says 80% of Americans want more AI regulation across parties, while a February–March 2026 Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found 65% say the government has done too little, including majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans.

The federal picture complicates the state-level strategy. In 2025, Sen. Ted Cruz inserted language into the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that would have barred every state from enforcing any AI law for 10 years, and though 17 Republican governors asked for it to be stripped and the Senate voted 99–1 to remove it, Cruz is now co-sponsoring a new federal AI safety bill with Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Majority Leader John Thune that Bores reads as his old bill in federal packaging. Whether Who Decides can build a durable shared agenda may hinge on whether that federal effort, which Bores says carries the possibility of removing all state AI bills, advances.