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The article examines whether AI company leaders like Dario Amodei are engaging in regulatory capture or actually believe their policy positions. The author argues the evidence points to genuine conviction rather than self-interested industry manipulation.
- Regulatory capture is a slow process of erosion happening behind closed doors—companies lobby Congress, hire former regulators, and gradually shift agencies from confrontation to accommodation, using the ICC's railroad regulation as the classic example.
- Amodei's support for AI regulation would reduce his company's profits, which contradicts the self-interest motive central to regulatory capture theory—if he were capturing regulators, he'd push for deregulation instead.
- The simpler explanation (Occam's razor) is that Amodei actually believes what he's saying about AI safety and regulation, rather than engaging in the complex, hidden machinations that real regulatory capture requires.