"Regulatory capture" may be winning the Overton Window

Regarding the possibility the labs are making a regulatory capture attempt: for one, I agree with it. For another... other people are agreeing with it. That's weird, because suspicion of regulatory capture doesn't imply any particular policy posture. Defeating the labs became the priority. Democrats and Republicans agree about regulatory capture, but disagree on whether to regulate at all: Elizabeth Warren , D-MA: The recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving." (safeguards, cyber attacks etc.) [...] We should immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe. [...] We need to enforce the laws already on the books to hold AI companies accountable, and Congress must urgently pass legislation to put stronger guardrail in place. [...] Ted Cruz , R-TX and Josh Hawley, R-MO: Cruz: “To watch AI CEOs saying, ‘We’re about to destroy the world so give us control of the government so we can lock in our monopoly status and prevent any innovators from challenging us,’ is just lunacy,” "And, by the way, if you’re about to destroy the world, how about, don’t. How about, stop.”" Hawley: “Absolutely not. There is no world in which I will consent to giving the most powerful companies in the history of the world — a small group of three or four of them…