I don’t disagree that these are also factors, but if tech leaders are pretty openly stating they want the regulation to happen and they want to guide the regulators, I think it’s accurate to say that they’re currently more motivated to achieve regulatory capture (for whatever reason) than they are to ensure that x-risk concerns don’t become a powerful political argument as suggested by the OP, which was the fairly modest claim I made.
(Obviously far more explicit and cynical claims about, say, Sam Altman’s intentions in founding OpenAI exist, but the point I made doesn’t rest on them)
I don’t disagree that these are also factors, but if tech leaders are pretty openly stating they want the regulation to happen and they want to guide the regulators, I think it’s accurate to say that they’re currently more motivated to achieve regulatory capture (for whatever reason) than they are to ensure that x-risk concerns don’t become a powerful political argument as suggested by the OP, which was the fairly modest claim I made.
(Obviously far more explicit and cynical claims about, say, Sam Altman’s intentions in founding OpenAI exist, but the point I made doesn’t rest on them)