KI-Lobbyisten fliegen Kongressmitarbeiter auf Luxusreisen durch das Land

I just took my yearly anti-bribery training and this is textbook bribery.

When we finally oust this regime, I hope lobbying laws get a MASSIVE overhaul!

I had a thought the other day. If you try to bribe an officer it’s illegal. But if you get pulled over, can you “lobby” an officer to not give you a ticket?

The really insidious part isn’t the trips themselves — it’s the knowledge asymmetry they create. Congressional staffers are the ones who actually draft legislation, and most of them have zero technical background in AI. So now the only „education“ they get on how AI works, what it can do, and what risks to regulate comes directly from the companies who benefit from light regulation.

It’s the same playbook telecom ran in the 90s and pharma ran in the 2000s. By the time independent experts get a seat at the table, the regulatory framework is already baked and the lobbyists have moved on to shaping enforcement.

The speed of AI development makes this worse than past rounds of regulatory capture — by the time Congress passes anything meaningful, the technology has already leapfrogged whatever they’re trying to regulate.