The influence of the AI industry is becoming a major topic in New York’s 12th congressional district, where a crowded Democratic primary packed with millennial and Gen Z candidates is heating up. The seat represents one of the wealthiest communities in the country—and is a liberal stronghold—so whoever wins could eventually become a major player in the fight to limit the most noxious impacts of large language model (LLM) technology.

On Tuesday, Cameron Kasky, a political activist and Parkland shooting survivor who lives in the district (which includes the Upper West Side and Upper East Side) announced he was running. His campaign is making fighting the “AI oligarchs” a pivotal focus, adapting the rally cry used by progressive Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for

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