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AI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertainty
Companies spent significantly more lobbying AI issues at the U.S. federal level last year compared to 2023, amid regulatory uncertainty.
Anthropic brought on its first in-house lobbyist, Department of Justice alum Rachel Appleton, and OpenAI hired political veteran Chris Lehane as its new VP of policy. That’s a tiny figure compared to what the larger tech industry put toward lobbying in the same timeframe ($61.5 million), but more than four times the total that the three AI labs spent in 2023 ($610,000). After a protracted battle with special interests, Governor Newsom vetoed bill SB 1047, which would have imposed wide-ranging safety and transparency requirements on AI developers.
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