Councilmember calls out OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta for lobbying against RAISE Act despite public support
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-10-06
At a hearing, Councilmember @chiosse challenged AI executives' sworn statements: while several companies publicly claimed to back the New York RAISE Act, she noted it is well known that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have lobbied against the bill for a year. The exchange spotlights the gap between the labs' stated positions and their actual lobbying on AI safety legislation.
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