Jason Poulos to try and unseat U.S. Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Jason Poulos, a Sherborn resident, has announced he has qualified for the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. Congress against Jake Auchincloss.

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Poulos attended public schools, including Dover-Sherborn Regional High School. He went on to graduate from UMass Amherst, where he was a Pell Grant recipient and work-study student. While at UMass, he worked at the Political Economy Research Institute, contributing to research on living wage policies and even publishing a policy brief on inflation-adjusting the Massachusetts minimum wage.

After college, Poulos worked as a Research Assistant at Harvard University and MIT before earning a Ph.D. in Political Science (with a Designated Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering) from UC Berkeley. He was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He later completed postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Today, he lives in Sherborn and designs evaluation frameworks for frontier AI systems. His research has been published in top venues including Nature, the International Conference on Learning Representations, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Statistics in Medicine.

Poulos is running for Congress because he believes rapid technological change — particularly in AI — is poised to displace millions of workers while concentrating enormous wealth and power in the hands of a few tech giants. As someone who has studied the intersection of technology and policy for years, he wants to bring informed, progressive leadership to Washington.

A proud product of public education, Poulos states he is committed to protecting and expanding access to quality public schools. He is also a strong supporter of labor unions, having been a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers and UAW Local 2865 while at UC Berkeley. He supports passing the PRO Act.

Poulos believes government has a fundamental responsibility to protect working families, guarantee quality healthcare for all, stand up for human rights, hold law enforcement accountable, and treat all living beings with compassion.

Poulos says he is not accepting donations from corporate PACs, crypto PACs, AIPAC, or DMFI.