The New York City Public Advocate’s Office recently released an “Internet for All” Plan that, among many other things, recommends spending more than $2 billion to build a city-owned open-access municipal fiber network across the five boroughs. The Plan also suggests that the city explore ways to potentially seize infrastructure owned by a private electric utility, Con Edison, via eminent domain to support this initiative. The Public Advocate’s Plan comes at an interesting time in New York City. In late 2025, the New York City Council passed a law requiring the mayor to develop an internet master plan. This would be the second time an NYC mayor issued such a plan. In January 2020, then-mayor Bill de Blasio released his own Internet Master Plan, which recommended spending upwards of $2.1 billion to deploy a citywide public fiber network, like what the Public Advocate is now calling for. The IMP was shelved by de Blasio’s successor, Eric Adams. The law requires Mayor Zohran Mamdani to release a draft broadband plan by November 2026 and a final version by May 1, 2027.

We, the undersigned executives and technical leaders from across the United States, write to you to ask you to lift the export control directives on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos large language models and commit to an open, scientific and transparent process of handling AI risk assessments in the future. Not all of us agree that AI regulation is the right way forward. But if this Administration’s laudable goal of securing our nation’s critical infrastructure is going to include models being regulated, then the regulations should be:

1. Grounded in scientific evaluations developed with input from industry and academia;
2. Created through a democratic rule-making process;
3. Enforced transparently and fairly with appropriate time given to remediate; and
4. Used only to the minimal extent necessary to ensure the safety of the American public.