AI labs begging for oversight: regulatory capture or covering their asses before IPO?
TheAhmadOsman · x · 2026-09-13
TheAhmadOsman pushes back on willcb's take that AI labs want oversight to calm the public before IPO. He argues nothing stops the labs from acting collectively, and their lobbying for regulation — with corporate structures amplifying a "whistleblower" — points to moat-securing via regulatory capture. willcb's original thread had framed it as a 2008-style pre-emptive move: accept light operational oversight now to avoid harsher scaling limits later.
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