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Head of US State and Local Government Relations at Anthropic
We are opposed to this bill. Good transparency legislation needs to ensure public safety and accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology, not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card against all liability.
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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies support for holding AI companies legally accountable: it opposes giving companies a “get-out-of-jail-free card against all liability” and calls for “accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology.” That establishes a supportive stance on AI companies being liable for harms from their models. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
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AI Verified The quote says legislation should ensure "accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology" and should not provide a "get-out-of-jail-free card against all liability," which clearly supports companies being liable. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The Gizmodo source URL (published April 14, 2026) contains the exact sentence and attributes it to “Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic’s head of US state and local government relations.” A contemporaneous WIRED report also reproduces the same wording as Fernandez’s statement, confirming the quote is real and verbatim. ([gizmodo.com](https://gizmodo.com/the-openai-anthropic-cold-war-comes-to-illinois-2000746324)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
AI Verified Source_url (gizmodo.com) could not be fetched directly (TLS "certificate is not yet valid" error), but I confirmed the quote verbatim via web search (Fortune, Breitbart, Capitol News Illinois, and others). Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic's head of U.S. state and local government relations, is quoted: "We are opposed to this bill. Good transparency legislation needs to ensure public safety and accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology, not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card against all liability." This referred to Illinois SB 3444, the OpenAI-backed bill that would have shielded frontier AI developers from liability for mass-casualty/large-damage harms. Author attribution (Head of US State and Local Government Relations at Anthropic) is correct. Year 2026 is correct. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement #395 ("AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models") — Fernandez/Anthropic opposed a bill granting a liability shield, explicitly favoring accountability and liability for AI companies. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 22d ago
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