Carlo CocuzziAI Expert, Pod Cast Host, Real Estate Investor and Funding Specialist

This Is Regulatory Capture in Real Time

2 Aug 2026 · 0 min

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Anthropic and OpenAI are trying to shape AI regulation to their advantage, much like railroads and banks did historically. Their "guardrails" aim to limit competition and keep government at arm's length, but open-source models are moving too fast for the strategy to work.

For me, when I look at this, what's happening with Anthropic and OpenAI, this is regulatory capture in real time. Every major industry has tried to do this. The railroads did it, the banks did it, telco did it, big tech did it, and now they're trying to do it to kind of set up the guardrails to then decide, A, to keep the government at bay, but also to keep other folks at bay. And that has economic consequences. I don't think they'll succeed because the open wave models are moving so quickly, but it's a worth try if you were them.