OpenAI’s top strategist calls the state-by-state route reverse federalism. Its president helps fund a super PAC trying to preempt the states.

OpenAI’s chief political strategist, Chris Lehane, labels the industry’s shift toward state-level AI regulation as reverse federalism. The company’s president and a16z fund a super PAC that spends heavily to push a national framework designed to override state rules. OpenAI has also requested California tighten a law it previously opposed and has petitioned Congress for mandatory AI standards.