'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms
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Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens
The AI industry is copying techniques used by tobacco firms,big pharma and oil companies to influence governmental policy and regulation of itself, according to an academic study.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh, Trinity CollegeDublin, Delft University of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University claim they identified patterns of "corporate capture" by which regulations and publicbodies come to act in the interest of industry rather than the citizens they aremeant to protect.
Their paper, “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping IndustryInterference and Government Complicity,” details various mechanisms of captureand how these work.
The most frequent include what the researchers identify as Discourse& Epistemic influence (D&EI), Elusion of law, or Direct influence onpolicy.
For evidence, the researchers analyzed 100 news stories coveringfour global AI events between 2023 and 2025; the EU AI Act negotiations, and theglobal AI summits...
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