Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states
THE SCOOP — Anthropic is going toe-to-toe with the Trump Administration on artificial intelligence policy …
“Anthropic's strategy bucks the overall trend in the tech industry, where most CEOs have taken steps to gain favor with the new administration, attempting to influence it from within, rather than fight its policies https://www.semafor.com/...
Having “state by state” AI rules would be horrible for startups and horrible for innovation. Don't understand the argument for being against federal alignment.
Anthropic's in the right here. AI companies should either be silent on or opposed to preemption, and certainly not supporting it. Preempting with something is one thing. Preempting with nothing would make it unlikely anything ever happens federally. https://x.com/...
Sccop(s): 1. @AnthropicAI has been lobbying against a federal bill that would preempt state AI laws. 2. The Trump Administration is angry about it. 3. One of Anthropic's advisors is Ben Buchanan, central player on Biden AI/diffusion. https://www.semafor.com/...