Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
The existential AI risk narrative—amplified by OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier labs—justifies industry self-regulation while forestalling government oversight of training data, labor practices, and algorithmic bias. This allows well-funded incumbents to write regulatory rules before smaller competitors or public interest advocates establish accountability baselines. Repeated invocations of sci-fi scenarios like Skynet serve as cover for a business strategy: frame the threat as abstract and civilizational so that only the companies building the systems appear capable of managing it.