Bores told Semafor that he’s being targeted not only because he favors AI guardrails, but because he’s spent years in tech — nearly five of those at Palantir.

“They don’t want someone who knows their industry regulating their industry, and I think that's telling on themselves.”

Think Big PAC — which produced the ad — is affiliated with Leading the Future, a $100 million pro-AI super PAC funded by Marc Andreessen, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, among others.

The ad — which ran over the weekend — claims without evidence that Bores worked on and profited from ICE-related projects at Palantir.

But Bores told Semafor that he refused to work on the ICE contract at Palantir, and departed the company over its relationship with the agency.