who are you considering to be the “regulator” who is “captured” in this story?
In the regulatory capture framing, the person who had a role equivalent to a regulator was the OP who joined OpenAI’s Board of Directors as part of an OpenPhil intervention to mitigate x-risks from AI. (OpenPhil publicly stated their motivation to “help play a role in OpenAI’s approach to safety and governance issues” in their writeup on the $30M grant to OpenAI).
In the regulatory capture framing, the person who had a role equivalent to a regulator was the OP who joined OpenAI’s Board of Directors as part of an OpenPhil intervention to mitigate x-risks from AI. (OpenPhil publicly stated their motivation to “help play a role in OpenAI’s approach to safety and governance issues” in their writeup on the $30M grant to OpenAI).