Anthropic says state AI transparency laws may already be outdated

Anthropic's head of US state and local policy said the AI transparency laws the company endorsed in California and New York last year may already be outdated given how quickly AI capabilities are advancing. The company is now pushing other states to move faster on AI regulation.

Why it matters: Anthropic has positioned itself as the frontier lab most willing to publicly back binding AI regulation, a contrast with peers' more cautious stance on legislation. This signals Anthropic sees continued federal inaction as making state-level rules the primary near-term lever for AI governance, even as it admits those rules are struggling to keep pace with the technology.