How the AI regulatory capture narrative was built, from security failure to antitrust waiver
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-17
The author lays out a four-step account of how the "AI regulatory capture" narrative was constructed: the OpenAI–HuggingFace incident was in reality a mundane cybersecurity failure (bad sandboxing, weak monitoring), which was spun into a "rogue AI" story, amplified through months of media coverage, and finally leveraged when Dario Amodei — a month before IPO — proposed leading AI companies coordinate their development pace under a government-granted antitrust waiver. Core argument: coordinating AI safety is not the same as coordinating the pace of AI development, and "pacing" AI looks like OPEC-style market capture whether driven by greed or wrapped in safety language.
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