Joseph Hoefer spoke with Bloomberg Government about how, after spending more than a year focusing on the White House, lobbyists working to shape AI policy say they will turn more to lawmakers tasked with implementing the Trump administration’s framework it unveiled last week.
Clients from all sectors have a stake in the AI debate: tech players, model developers, plus pharmaceutical, energy, health care, and defense interests. They don’t all agree, either.
“From a lobbying perspective, that means this is about to get more crowded, not less,” said Joseph Hoefer, chief AI officer at Monument Advocacy, whose clients include Waymo.
“Now that this is moving out of the abstract and into actual policy design, you’re going to start to see real lines drawn and conflicts emerge across industries,” Hoefer said.
“The details matter here, and even defining where responsibility sits within that stack is going to be a complicated and contested exercise,” he added. “That leaves a lot of room for advocacy, because how those lines get drawn will have real implications for who bears the risk, who captures the value, and how this market ultimately develops.”