Industry-wide 'regulatory capture' or real fear? A thread on why lab employees suddenly panicked
MajmudarAdam · x · 2026-09-13
MajmudarAdam offers a contested framing: the past two weeks of AI safety posturing could easily be read from outside as an orchestrated industry-wide regulatory capture strategy. He argues the likelier driver is that lab employees have seen something about the pace of capability progress that scared them, and that the whole debate hinges on a large gap between internal beliefs about how fast models are improving and what outsiders can observe. The thread's full argument is truncated in the post.
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