Regulatory Capture
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Reyes: Frontier labs must pursue regulatory capture or multi-model architectures
“Part of what needs to happen in order to make these
companies like Anthropica and OpenAI realize the value is they either A, which they're pursuing, have to go through regulatory capture, in which case they go and they tell, they sort of scare politicians int…”
Chamath: Frontier AI lab safety warnings are an elegant attempt at regulatory capture
“That whole thing, sorry, last thing to interrupt you, David, is it's a much more nuanced and elegant attempt at right capture.
I got to give them credit for that.
It's like, okay, hey guys, pull the ladder up.”
Friedberg: Frontier AI leaders push regulation out of messianic belief, not capture
“I don't think they're saying, like, the strategy is regulatory capture. Let me go. I think that they actually do think that they are the only ones that can help guide humanity, and therefore they need to have all the power, not just the power of the models, bu…”
Kalanick: Companies Seek Federal Preemption to Achieve Regulatory Capture
“Federal preemption is good
When you are pro regulatory capture.”
Sam Lessin: AI labs seeking regulatory capture is cynical and anti-American
“I think it's very cynical for these companies to even try to switch the field of play from business to politics, right? Like, I think that's a very cynical, anti-American thing to do, to be like, okay, we're not going to play and compete in capitalism in a fai…”
Sacks: RFK Jr. is right on regulatory capture and state-corporate greed
“He's right about the regulatory capture. He's right about the marriage of state power and corporate greed.”
Dan Siroker: Doomerism and regulatory capture risk stalling AI innovation
“Doomers plus regulatory capture, I could see creating a world in which a lot of AI innovation is, is stalled.”
Mensch: Banning open-source AI enforces regulatory capture for incumbents
“Today going, banning open source, preventing it from happening is really a way, well, to enforce regulatory capture, even though the actors that would benefit from it, Don't want it to happen. But by design, if you actually ban small actors from doing things i…”
Gurley: Capitalism is most broken where regulatory capture is highest
“I think where capitalism's broken is where the capture's the highest, right?”
Chamath: Ruling class and regulatory capture are blocking major physical innovation
“The reason you, we don't see these kinds of innovations is because the ruling class has clogged up and sclerotically dominated all the places where you'd have this massive Forms of innovation. And regulatory capture.”
Andreessen: Incumbents push AI regulatory capture to create cartels and block startups
“And then quite honestly, also, you know, a set of people who I think are trying to take advantage of this and trying to go for, you know, regulatory capture and try to basically establish a cartel and, you know, try to basically choke off innovation as startup…”
Spence: Regulatory capture occurs mostly at state and local levels
“The regulatory capture happens more, I think, at the state and local level.”