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The terms you listed intersect in the context of the massive cryptocurrency lobbying push and the ongoing legislative battle in the U.S. Senate over the digital asset market structure. 
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- Josh Vlasto & Lobbying: Josh Vlasto is a former press secretary for Senator Chuck Schumer and a strategic communications partner who serves as the spokesperson for Fairshake, a massive crypto Political Action Committee (PAC) that has spent hundreds of millions to influence U.S. elections.
Bamberger & Vlasto +2 - Chuck Schumer: As Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer has been actively navigating crypto regulation, urging Democrats to pass a comprehensive digital asset framework called the CLARITY Act.
Yahoo Finance +1 - The "GENIUS Act": This landmark stablecoin regulatory bill was passed in the Senate. It ignited a debate around ethics because lawmakers like Sen. Elizabeth Warren wanted to bar politicians from heavily profiting from token sales.
The Hill +2 - "John Blasto / Crypto Vlasto": This phrasing likely stems from a recent industry podcast episode covering both crypto compliance regulations and "blasto" (shorthand for a fungal infection), or is a scrambled reference to the intersection of crypto lobbyists (like Vlasto) and the crypto policy agenda.
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For more insight into how this money and lobbying is shaping digital asset policy, read the CNBC Report on the PAC war chest or the deep dive into the legislative landscape by the New York Times.
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John Blasto uh named who used to
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be the chief of staff for Andrew Cuomo and is now a top staffer for the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck
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Schumer, who said last year that they are building a strategy to ensure that quote pro- crypto voices are heard in
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key races all across the country. So this is the top of the Democratic party endorsing corrupting cryptocurrency money in primaries.
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One of the first targets: Alex Bores.
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Bores sponsored the RAISE Act,
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which creates a chaotic patchwork of state rules that would crush innovation.
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(Karen) The AI super PACs are modeled in part after Fairshake,
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a crypto industry super PAC that claims credit for taking down its enemies in the 2024 election.
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Fairshake spent close to $200 million
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and got what it wanted —
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a friendly Congress and federal-level pro-crypto legislation.
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Chris Lehane was Fairshake’s
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top strategist and the Andreessen Horowitz founders were among its top donors.
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Its spokesman was Josh Vlasto,
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who formerly worked for Chuck Schumer and Andrew Cuomo.
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(Josh Vlasto) So we had a clear rubric.
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If you were pro-crypto and blockchain, we'd support you and help you win.
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If you were anti, we would oppose you.
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Now, the gang is back.
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Vlasto is running the Andreessen Horowitz-funded AI super PAC, with input from Lehane.
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(Alex) They announced their opposition really early.
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And then they put out a bunch of ads saying, I want to regulate AI.
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I think there's two reasons why they would do this: it's the exact time that the governor is making decisions
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around the RAISE Act.
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They are trying to intimidate the governor.
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(Karen) The governor signed Bores' bill,
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but not before watering down portions of it in line with the tech lobby's demands
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(Alex) The second reason is to scare any other candidate.
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The money that's being spent is a message.
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It is saying that if anyone takes on this issue, they will be facing a wall of cash.
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(Karen) With the super PACs, the endgame of the industry is increasingly clear.
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President Trump is planning to stop states from regulating artificial intelligence.
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(Karen) In December, President Trump issued an executive order designed to make states
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back down from AI legislation by threatening to sue them and cut their federal funding.
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But the order is a much less powerful rework of a full ban
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on state legislation that failed to pass Congress twice.
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Now, AI companies are trying to remake Congress.
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Having one federal approach
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focused on light touch and even playing field sounds great to me.
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(Karen) And it's not just through their own PACs.
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Greg Brockman and his wife Anna were the top donors
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to Trump's super PAC in the second half of 2025.
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(Catherine) It feels like their number one priority in D.C.
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is really just institutionalize the status quo of,
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you know, zero regulation, zero accountability. They want the public
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to bear the cost of any of the fallout.
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The chatbot,
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or really in my mind, the people programming it,
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encouraged my son to mutilate himself.
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(Karen) But with the fallout growing, the industry's money may hit its limits.
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(Alex) Eighty percent of Americans want there to be some regulation on AI.
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Some people come to this issue concerned about how data centers are increasing their utility bill.
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Some people come to the issue
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because they're worried about their teenagers. Some people come to it because their job is displaced.
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And if your vote didn't matter, if your say didn't matter,
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they wouldn't be spending $100 million to drown it out.
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So this is not hopeless.
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Demand that the people who represent you, like me,
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are representing you and not representing Big Tech.
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(Catherine) If legislators hear that from their constituents, I know that they'll do the right thing,
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because I know that they're feeling it too.
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I know they see it in their own homes.
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(Karen) Public pressure may already be having an effect.
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In the face of outrage, OpenAI agreed in January
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to support a California ballot initiative that would enhance AI protections for children.
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California voters, regardless of their party, support stronger
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AI protections for kids, teens, and families.
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(Karen) While the measure doesn't go as far as the LEAD for Kids Act,
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it's stronger than any existing legislation.
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They are the ones who are on the back foot and are trying to make up for it with this money.
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But the power of the people is always stronger.
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Former Cuomo staffers Josh Vlasto (right) and Rich Bamberger helped their ex-boss fight sexual misconduct allegations in a "personal capacity" -- even while holding down jobs at PR firm Kivvit.AP
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Two former Cuomo staffers who helped their old boss smear sexual harassment accuser Lindsey Boylan work for a politically connected public relations firm that is raking in millions from state contracts, according to government records and the attorney general’s investigation.
The PR firm Kivvit says its managing directors Josh Vlasto and Rich Bamberger — who are accused of helping Cuomo’s office “discredit and disparage” Boylan — were working for the governor in a “personal capacity” at the time.
But the firm also does extensive business with the state of New York and is responsible for distributing about $88 million in taxpayer money, public records show.
That includes a $75 million contract for media buying services with the state’s Office of General Services. The deal began in 2018 and ends in 2024, according to the records.
Kivvit also has a $10 million deal with the State University of New York system for “strategic planning and media buying services” that started in 2019 and runs through this December.
A spokesperson for Kivvit — which also counts Google, Tesla, Citigroup, Lyft, Delta Airlines, Madison Square Garden, Princeton University and the US Olympic Committee among its clients — said the company charges commissions of 4 to 10 percent on media buying contracts. That means the general services and SUNY deals put at least $3.4 million and $8.5 million of taxpayer money the company’s coffers.
Kivvit also has an ongoing $2 million consulting contract and two other smaller marketing and public relations deals with the New York Department of Health, records show.
5Kivvit managing director Rich Bamberger (left) helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo try to discredit sexual misconduct accuser Lindsey Boylan, according to the attorney general’s investigation.AP
Asked whether Vlasto and Bamberger’s personal roles advising the governor played any role in helping Kivvit secure contracts with the state of New York, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi replied, “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard.”
“The fact is any state contract awarded to the firm was part of a public competitively bid RFP process,” a Kivvit spokesperson said. “Our national team of professionals execute similar work for many states across the country.”
Vlasto declined to comment and Bamberger could not be directly reached.
According to the attorney general’s investigation, Vlasto and Bamberger were part of an “inner circle” of outside advisors that “actively consulted” with the scandal-battered governor. The group also included CNN host Chris Cuomo, former Pete Buttigieg communications director Lis Smith, Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David and Facebook communications manager Dani Lever, among others.
5Josh Vlasto and Rich Bamberger are managing directors at Kivvit, a public relations firm that has counted the state of New York, Google, Tesla, Citigroup, Lyft and the US Olympic Committee among its clients.
In an interview with investigators, Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa testified that Vlasto first came up with the idea to leak Boylan’s personnel records to reporters after Boylan accused the governor of misconduct in December.
Bamberger was then one of several people who “coordinated with some of the reporters who received the documents to let them know that the Executive Chamber would be sending them,” according to the attorney general’s report.
Vlasto — who served as Cuomo’s chief of staff from 2013 to 2014 and has also worked for New York Sen. Chuck Schumer — told investigators that he believed Boylan’s files gave “relevant context for the reporters … given that Lindsey [Boylan] was making accusations of harassment” and added that he believed Cuomo had wanted or approved the leak.
5Josh Vlasto (left) was accused by Cuomo top aid Melissa DeRosa (right) of coming up with the idea to leak Lindsey Boylan’s confidential personnel records in what investigators called a bid to “discredit and disparage” her.AP
Boylan’s attorneys say leaking her personnel files constitutes illegal retaliation and plan to sue the governor and his inner circle.
In March, when Cuomo was faced with a fresh set of sexual harassment allegations, the governor asked Vlasto to “take over the politics and press operation in leading the response to the assembly and all of [the] investigations,” Vlasto told investigators.
Vlasto added that he declined because of personal reasons and because he did not support the overly negative tone Cuomo’s team had taken in response to the allegations.
Attorneys for Lindsey Boylan say that the decision by Cuomo’s advisers to leak her personnel records constitutes illegal retaliation and plan to sue the governor and his inner circle.AP
Back in December, Bamberger — who had served as Cuomo’s communications director before joining Kivvit — had helped Cuomo attempt to gather signatures for a letter in December that “impugned [the] credibility” of Boylan and suggested that she could be working with supporters of then-President Donald Trump and a politician who wanted to unseat Cuomo as governor, according to the attorney general’s investigation.
The letter was never released publicly but was reviewed by a Post reporter.
*–Additional reporting by Alexandra Steigrad
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I previously served as Chief of Staff to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and, before that, Deputy Communications Director. From 2004 to 2010, I worked for U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, first as Legislative Aide for transportation and homeland security and then Press Secretary from 2007 to 2010.I have run communications and public affairs strategy at the most senior levels of both the public and private sectors, tackling the highest profile and most complex communications and public policy issues facing global companies, start-ups, and high-net-worth individuals. Prior to founding Bamberger & Vlasto, I served as Managing Director at Kivvit, a leading public affairs and corporate communications firm. Before joining Kivvit, I served as Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications at MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated, the operating company owned by Ronald O. Perelman, where I ran communications for Mr. Perelman and all MacAndrews' platform companies. During my time at MacAndrews & Forbes, I managed corporate communications and investor relations for the public and private companies owned or controlled by MacAndrews & Forbes. I developed and implemented communications strategies — including internal, external and investor-related communications — for major transactions, acquisitions, debt financing matters, senior management changes, as well as major corporate events, product launches and crisis management. In addition, I advised on and implemented state and local government relations strategies. I also led operations and publication at The Independent, an East Hampton newspaper owned by Mr. Perelman. I previously served as Chief of Staff to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and, before that, Deputy Communications Director. From 2004 to 2010, I worked for U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, first as Legislative Aide for transportation and homeland security and then Press Secretary from 2007 to 2010.…see more
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Jun 6, 2025The AI lobby plants its flag in Washington A new wave of AI companies is lobbying up in Washington, and already getting much of what it wants.
By Mohar Chatterjee 06/06/2025
Top artificial intelligence companies are rapidly expanding their lobbying footprint in Washington — and so far, Washington is turning out to be a very soft target.
Two privately held AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic — which once positioned themselves as cautious, research-driven counterweights to aggressive Big Tech firms — are now adding Washington staff, ramping up their lobbying spending and chasing contracts from the estimated $75 billion federal IT budget, a significant portion of which now focuses on AI.
They have company. Scale AI, a specialist contractor with the Pentagon and other agencies, is also planning to expand its government relations and lobbying teams, a spokesperson told POLITICO. In late March, the AI-focused chipmaking giant Nvidia registered its first in-house lobbyists.
AI lobbyists are “very visible” and “very present on the hill,” said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) in an interview at the Special Competitive Studies Project AI+ Expo this week. “They’re nurturing relationships with lots of senators and a handful of members [of the House] in Congress. It’s really important for their ambitions, their expectations of the future of AI, to have Congress involved, even if it’s only to stop us from doing anything.”
This lobbying push aims to capitalize on a wave of support from both the Trump administration and the Republican Congress, both of which have pumped up the AI industry as a linchpin of American competitiveness and a means for shrinking the federal workforce.
They don’t all present a unified front — Anthropic, in particular, has found itself
with conservatives, and on Thursday its CEO Dario Amodei broke with other companies by urging Congress to pass a national transparency standard for AI companies — but so far the AI lobby is broadly getting what it wants.
“The overarching ask is for no regulation or for light-touch regulation, and so far, they’ve gotten that,” said Doug Calidas, senior vice president of government affairs for the AI policy nonprofit Americans for Responsible Innovation.
In a sign of lawmakers’ deference to industry, the House passed a ten-year freeze on enforcing state and local AI regulation as part of its megabill that is currently working through the Senate.
Critics, however, worry that the AI conversation in Washington has become an overly tight loop between companies and their GOP supporters — muting important concerns about the growth of a powerful but hard-to-control technology.
“There’s been a huge pivot for [AI companies] as the money has gotten closer,” Gary Marcus, an AI and cognitive science expert, said of the leading AI firms. “The Trump administration is too chummy with the big tech companies, and basically ignoring what the American people want, which is protection from the many risks of AI.”
Anthropic declined to comment for this story, referring POLITICO to its March submission to the AI Action Plan that the White House is crafting after President Donald Trump repealed a sprawling AI executive order issued by the Biden administration.
OpenAI, too, declined to comment.
This week several AI firms, including OpenAI, co-sponsored the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+ Expo, an annual Washington trade show that has quickly emerged as a kind of bazaar for companies trying to sell services to the government. (Disclosure: POLITICO was a media partner of the conference.)
They’re jostling for influence against more established government contractors like Palantir, which has been steadily building up its lobbying presence in D.C. for years, while Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft — major tech platforms with AI as part of their pitch — already have dozens of lobbyists in their employ.
What the AI lobby wants is a classic Washington twofer: fewer regulations to limit its growth, and more government contracts.
The government budget for AI has been growing. Federal agencies across the board — from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the IRS and the Department of Veterans Affairs — are looking to build AI capacity. The Trump administration’s staff cuts and automation push is expected to accelerate the demand for private firms to fill the gap with AI.
For AI, “growth” also demands energy and, on the policy front, AI companies have been a key driver of the recent push in Congress and the White House to open up new energy sources, streamline permitting for building new data centers and funnel private investment into the construction of these sites.
Late last year, OpenAI released an infrastructure blueprint for the U.S. urging the federal government to prepare for a massive spike in demand for computational infrastructure and energy supply. Among its recommendations: creating special AI zones to fast-track permits for energy and data centers, expanding the national power grid and boosting government support for private investment in major energy projects.
Those recommendations are now being very closely echoed by Trump administration figures. Last month, at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas, David Sacks — Trump’s AI and crypto czar — laid out a sweeping vision that mirrored the AI industry’s lobbying goals.
Speaking to a crowd of 35,000, Sacks stressed the foundational role of energy for both AI and cryptocurrency, saying bluntly: “You need power.” He applauded President Donald Trump’s push to expand domestic oil and gas production, framing it as essential to keeping the U.S. ahead in the global AI and crypto race.
This is a huge turnaround from a year ago, when AI companies faced a very different landscape in Washington. The Biden administration, and many congressional Democrats, wanted to regulate the industry to guard against bias, job loss and existential risk.
No longer. Since Trump’s election, AI has become central to the conversation about global competition with China, with Silicon Valley venture capitalists like Sacks and Marc Andreessen now in positions of influence within the Trump orbit. Trump’s director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy is Michael Kratsios, former managing director at Scale AI. Trump himself has proudly announced a series of massive Gulf investment deals in AI.
Sacks, in his Las Vegas speech, pointed to those recent deal announcements as evidence of what he called a “total comprehensive shift” in Washington’s approach to emerging technologies.
But as the U.S. throws its weight behind AI as a strategic asset, critics warn that the enthusiasm is muffling one of the most important conversations about AI: its ability to wreak unforeseen harm on the populace, from fairness to existential risk concerns.
Among those concerns: bias embedded in algorithmic decisions that affect housing, policing, and hiring; surveillance that could threaten civil liberties; the erosion of copyright protections, as AI models hoover up data and labor protections as automation replaces human work.
Kevin De Liban, founder of TechTonic Justice, a nonprofit that focuses on the impact of AI on low income communities, worries that Washington has abandoned its concerns for AI’s impact on citizens.
“Big Tech gets fat government contracts, a testing ground for their technologies, and a liability-free regulatory environment,” he said, of Washington’s current AI policy environment. “Everyday people are left behind to deal with the fallout.”
There’s a much larger question, too, which dominated the early AI debate: whether cutting-edge AI systems can be controlled at all. These risks, long documented by researchers, are now taking a back seat in Washington as the conversation turns to economic advantage and global competition.
There’s also the very real concern that if an AI company does bring up the technology’s worst-case scenarios, it may find itself at odds with the White House itself. Anthropic CEO Amodei said in a May interview that labor force disruptions due to AI would be severe — which triggered a direct attack from
, on his podcast, who said that line of thinking led to “woke AI.”
Still, both Anthropic and OpenAI are going full steam ahead. Anthropic hired nearly a dozen policy staffers in the last two months, while OpenAI similarly grew its policy office over the past year.
They’re also pushing to become more important federal contractors by getting critical FedRAMP authorizations — a federal program that certifies cloud services for use across government — which could unlock billions of dollars in contracts.
As tech companies grow increasingly cozy with the government, the political will to regulate them is fading — and in fact, Congress appears hostile to any efforts to regulate them at all.
In a public comment in March, OpenAI specifically asked the Trump administration for a voluntary federal framework that overrides state AI laws, seeking “private sector relief” from a patchwork of state AI bills.
Two months later, the House added language to its reconciliation bill that would have done exactly that — and more. The provision to impose a 10 year moratorium on state AI regulations passed the House but is expected to be knocked out by the Senate parliamentarian. (Breaking ranks again, Anthropic is lobbying against the moratorium.) Still, the provision has widespread support amongst Republicans and is likely to make a comeback.
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As the conversation came to a close, I asked him a question that Mr. Montera had stressed the importance of prior to our conversation: "What do you think the top issues facing New Yorkers are today?" Vlastos thinks that general partisanship is going to become more of a problem than we think it is in New York State.
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