Companies have significantly gone more issues of lobbying it to the US federal level last year compared to 2023 amid regulatory uncertainty.
According to data compiled by Opensecrets, 648 companies spent on lobbying it in 2024 versus 458 in 2023, representing an increase of 141% year by year.
Companies like Microsoft supported legislation such as Creat AI, which would support the comparison of he developed systems in others, including Openai, imposed their weight after the law of progress and reliability, which would create a center of devoted government to him.
Most AI laboratories – that is, companies dedicated almost exclusively to commercialize different types of technology he – spent more support of legislative agenda in 2024 than in 2023, the data show.
Openai increased its lobbying costs to $ 1.76 million last year from $ 260,000 to 2023. Anthropic, OpenAi’s close rival, more than doubled its costs from $ 280,000 to 2023 to $ 720,000 last year, and the beginning of Focusing on the enterprise increased $ 70,000 two years ago.
Both Openai and Anthropic do employment over the past year to coordinate their policy -making contact. Anthropic brought his first lobbyist inside the house, the aluminum of the Justice Department Rachel Appleton, and Openai hired political veteran Chris Lehane as his new VP of politics.
All to say, Openai, Anthropic and Chere set aside $ 2.71 million combined for their federal lobbying initiatives 2024. This is a small figure compared to what the largest technology industry decided towards lobbying in the same framework Time ($ 61.5 million), but more than four times more than the total that the three laboratories spent in 2023 ($ 610,000).
Techcrunch reached Openai, Anthropic and Cohe for comment, but did not hear again about the time of the press.
Last year was a shock in his home policymaking. In the first half, Congress lawmakers considered more than 90 parts of the legislation related to it, according to the Brennan Center. At the state level, over 700 laws were proposed.
Congress made little progress, making state lawmakers fake ahead. Tennesses became the first state to defend the artists of sound from the unauthorized cloning of him. Colorado adopted a risk -based, risk -based approach to his policy. And California Governor Gavin Newsom signed dozens of security bills associated with him, some of which require companies to reveal details about their training.
No state official was successful in adopting the regulation of he so comprehensive as international frameworks as the EU’s act, however.
After a prolonged battle of particular interest, Governor Newsom vetoed Bill SB 1047, which would have imposed extensive security and transparency requirements for him. Texas Bill, who is even wider in extension, can suffer the same fate after making his way through Statehouse.
It is unclear whether the federal government can make more progress in the legislation this year against the end, or even if there is a strong appetite for codification. President Donald Trump has signaled his intention to deregister mainly the industry, clearing what he perceives are roadblocks for US overwhelming.
During his first day in office, Trump revoked an executive order from former President Joe Biden who sought to reduce the risks he may pose to customers, workers and national security. On Thursday, Trump signed an OE that instructed federal agencies to suspend some Biden-Era policies and programs, potentially including export rules in it.
In November, anthropic called for the “targeted” arrangement of the federal one within the next 18 months, warning that the window for “proactive risk prevention is closing quickly”. For its part, Openai in a recent policy document called on the US government to take more essential actions for him and the infrastructure to support the development of technology.
