Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated.
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An AI company that previously supported new transparency laws in two states now says those same laws may already be outdated and is pushing for even stronger regulations. This matters because the company is breaking from other tech industry players who opposed these transparency requirements on the grounds that they would slow down AI development. The context is that this company backed the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States last year, securing new transparency requirements that most of Silicon Valley fought against.
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