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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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HIGHLIGHT: Alex Bores Hosts Virtual Afterschool for Snowed-In NYC Kids, Takes Questions On AI
Just Ask Alex! Watch the full program here.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — This week, NY-12 Congressional candidate, state Assemblymember, and new dad Alex Bores invited snowed-in kids to his virtual afterschool program, “Just Ask Alex!” Alex’s kiddo-townhall gave working parents a few minutes to catch up between their normal workday and keep their children entertained.
Alex provided an enriching after-school session by fielding questions from children across the city about AI, NYC, and more!
Roughly one in four teens is using AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and ClaudeAI in the classroom, but fewer than 20% of students receive any structure or guidance. Parents and teachers are looking for ways to protect kids from the dangers of AI, so Alex plugged in to answer questions and help young people and young families understand the tools at their fingertips and how to use them safely.“AI is here. Kids are using it, and they have questions that aren’t getting answered,” said Bores. “Aside from the policies and regulations, the best way to protect kids online is to talk to them about these tools directly, teach them how to use them, and empower them to navigate the internet with confidence. That’s the only way these kids will be prepared for the world they’re growing up into.” Watch the full Q&A here and check out these highlights from the kiddo-Alex Q&A
Jessica asked: “How can schools teach students that AI outputs are probability-determined predictions rather than factual, or reliable, answers?”
Alex: “AI doesn’t know things in the same way that humans know things, and it's not verifying in the same way that humans are verifying things. Its just predicting what the next word should be,” said Bores. “Now there’s been lots of other systems especially in the last 6 months or so where AI is designed to check itself as it produces things, but it makes mistakes so you shouldn’t assume what you get back from an AI isn’t 100% correct I would say in the same way that you shouldn’t assume that anything you get back from a human isn’t 100% correct. You should always be checking the work that’s sent to you.”
Gregory asked: “Why do you think adults are worried about our screen time?”
Alex: “I just recently became a dad myself, my wife and I just had our first child, who is 5 months old
now, and we’re trying to make sure he’s not looking at screens even in the background,” said Bores. “There’s a worry with screens that if you focus too much on screens you won’t get the opportunity to talk to other kids your age and learn how to have a good conversation in person and build friendships with people that last a lifetime, I’m still friends with a lot of people I went to PS6 and Wagner and Hunter with when I was growing up.”
Aiden asked: “Will robots take people’s jobs?”
Alex: “Technology has always changed what people can do. Right now, we’re talking remotely, and
many students had a remote school day. That is something that didn’t exist when I was growing up,” said Bores. “There’s constantly changes that come from technology. There will be some jobs that are replaced. And one of the things that I’m really focused on is protecting people, is making sure that those who have trained for a while for a job are compensated if those jobs are replaced, that we are training kids like those that are on this webinar for the jobs of the future… and that we find ways to make sure families are okay. We are focused every day on making sure the robots are helping you and not just taking away jobs.”
Grace asked: “If AI needs to be trained on human data, are any of its creations considered original?”
Alex: “There's some bit where what AI is producing is clearly just a copy of other aspects when it's
taking someone’s exact style of painting or of lyrics, and it's almost imitating them. That’s very clearly a copy and not creating something new,” explained Bores. “I do think we’ll see the possibility of AIs almost being creative in a sense and creating new things, but that doesn’t mean the things that it's trained on don’t deserve recognition.”
4th Grade Teacher Sarah D’Amico asked: “How can teachers balance teaching students to use technology and AI but not rely on it?"
Alex: “AI is going to be part of most people’s jobs in the future, so it's important that students are
trained on how to use it. But I think the key is to understand what’s going into it and the skills it's replacing,” said Bores. “You can think by analogy of calculators and doing math. Everyone has calculators now, but we still learn how to use multiplication and division and understand the systems that are underneath it. We still need to understand how to put together critical thoughts, how to write in a convincing manner, even if people use AI to speed up that process in the future.”
Peter asked: “How do you stop AI from selling your data? Do they sell your data?”
Alex: “A lot of your data ends up being used by AI to train AI. And sometimes people are using data to
sell you things online wether that’s through chatbots or through targeting ads and using AI when you’re most likely to buy. We’re also seeing prices changing live based on who you are and your data. It’s somewhat dystopian if you ask me,” said Bores. “What we haven’t been successful either in New York or federally in the country is passing a data privacy law that gives everyone a right to own their own data, to claim it back from companies, to make sure it's not resold. And that’s one of the things I’ll be working on this year in New York and next year in Congress.”
Watch the full Q&A here.