As communities across the country block data center construction, the Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who controls how the military uses AI. As the AI debate devolves into “bust generation vs. boom generation,” one state lawmaker is trying to take a middle path.
In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, Rebecca Beran speaks with New York State Representative and U.S. Congress candidate Alex Boas. Boas sponsored New York’s first AI safety law, the RAISE Act, and quickly became a target of a Silicon Valley lobbying group that spent $125 million on attack ads.
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Dueling super PACs are currently fighting over the future of AI, and why Anthropic is betting $20 million on the pro-regulation side matters. Whether AI regulation ends up like finance or biotech or goes the route of social media, it will rarely be regulated until damage is done. Next up from Boas’ office is a bill on training data disclosure, content provenance, and a 43-point national AI framework.
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