Anthropic's world-class lobbyists are reportedly influencing US government policy to minimize downside risk from AI, focusing on issues like insecure IT systems, cyber warfare, IP theft, and data capture. This strategy aims to ban open model weights, which could otherwise foster competition for Anthropic, while potentially overlooking more nuanced policies regarding Chinese API-based services.
Anthropic's lobbying is actively shaping US AI policy to favor proprietary models by restricting open-source alternatives and Chinese competition.