{"id":257693,"date":"2026-05-28T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/artificial-intelligence-is-brought-to-you-by-these-florida-lobbyists-and-political-associations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:35:14","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-brought-to-you-by-these-florida-lobbyists-and-political-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/artificial-intelligence-is-brought-to-you-by-these-florida-lobbyists-and-political-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is brought to you by these Florida lobbyists and political associations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence is brought to you by these Florida lobbyists and political associations<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-28 08:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: floridapolitics.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence might one day replace humanity, lead us to a post-scarcity utopia, or just turn into a more annoying version of Clippy. And who knows, maybe Clippy will get a\u00a0high-tech come<\/strong>back with access to nuclear launch codes.<\/span><\/p>\n

For now, though, AI still needs lobbyists.<\/p>\n

And Florida\u2019s political scene is already full of them.<\/p>\n

Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI are all shaping the global AI race. They have quietly built strong teams in Tallahassee as lawmakers deal with\u00a0procurement rules<\/strong>,\u00a0datacenter growth<\/strong>, education policy, energy needs, and even the question of whether machines might one day see humans as unnecessary middle managers.<\/span><\/p>\n

OpenAI<\/strong> \u2014 the company that launched a thousand panicked LinkedIn posts and at least three divorces via ChatGPT \u2014 is represented in Florida by The Advocacy Partners\u2019<\/strong> Sarah Suskey<\/strong> and Slater Bayliss<\/strong>, alongside The Southern Group<\/strong> team of Brian Bautista<\/strong>, Brian McManus<\/strong>, Chris Dudley,<\/strong> and Clark Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Anthropic<\/strong>, which created Claude and is known for its strong focus on AI safety, has hired\u00a0Capital City Consulting. Their team<\/strong>\u00a0includes co-founder\u00a0Nick Iarossi,<\/strong>\u00a0Caroline Frasier<\/strong>,\u00a0Chris Schoonover,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kaley Flynn<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s\u00a0Elon Musk\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0xAI<\/strong>, which made Grok and shows that every billionaire eventually wants a chatbot based on their own online posts. Add in Tesla, and Musk is now closer than anyone to creating a real-life Knight Rider universe. Hopefully, the result is more like\u00a0KITT<\/strong>\u00a0or Red Dwarf\u2019s\u00a0Holly,<\/strong>\u00a0and less like\u00a0HAL 9000<\/strong> on a wild streak.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Florida, xAI is represented by\u00a0Jeff Sharkey<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Capitol Alliance Group<\/strong>, along with\u00a0Taylor Biehl,<\/strong> who have both worked with Musk\u2019s companies for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Naturally, the hyperscalers arrived too.<\/p>\n

Google<\/strong> \u2014 inventor of the transformer architecture<\/strong> that made the current AI boom possible and owner of enough of the internet to make William Gibson<\/strong> retroactively uncomfortable \u2014 fields one of the deepest Tallahassee…<\/p>\n

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