Artificial intelligence oligarchs want to make an example out of Assemblymember Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee who quit the industry for public service and wrote the strongest AI safety regulation in the nation. They’re spending millions to thwart his campaign to replace longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District.

But a host of progressive groups have started pouring money into a new super PAC to counterbalance the AI industry’s attempt to discipline one of its own. The Guardrails Alliance PAC yesterday launched its first ad buy of the cycle, spending $250,000 on a pair of videos that highlight how much AI billionaires want to stop Bores from winning.

“AI oligarchs and one of Trump’s biggest donors are spending millions to buy this congressional seat,” one of the ads says. “Let’s send them a message.”

The PAC registered last month and is funded by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Movement Voter Project, UltraViolet Action, and the powerful Working Families Party (WFP), along with “a wide range of individual donors including former and current tech workers.”

Just as the pro-Palestine super PAC American Priorities launched to fight the spending power of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Guardrails Alliance is likewise planning a targeted attack. It cannot outspend the AI industry or meet it one-to-one. But it can educate people who already hate artificial intelligence about where the industry is spending its money, and how they can counteract it.