OpenAI shifts toward supporting selected state AI bills amid patchwork concerns

OpenAI has shifted toward supporting specific state AI bills, according to a position outlined by Chris Lahan. Massachusetts and California were cited as examples, although the exact provisions and status of the bills were not specified.

The shift was contrasted with earlier opposition to a narrower proposal associated with Alex Boris that would require sufficiently large companies to report certain incidents and pay fines. State-by-state rules were described as undesirable but potentially the least-worst option, while New York’s proposed data-center moratorium and Texas’s higher construction threshold illustrated that AI and data-center policy may not divide cleanly along party lines.