The point of democracy is that it's strong enough to take lots of different types of lobbying in and still come away with something that nudges us forward. The fundamental fact of reality is that corporations will lobby for what they think are better policies, including better policies for them. This is why language matters. All of these tweets, shaping all of the opinions that they're shaping are predicated on the idea that this represents an attempt to water down the legislation.
Today TIME published a "scoop" about OpenAI's lobbying efforts in 2022 around the EU AI Act. NLW argues that the story is not only not some smoking gun, but is the type of nothingburger that makes people drop out of otherwise important conversations because they're feeling like the media is trying to manipulate their feelings. Before that a new research study reveals some unexpectedly positive attitudes towards AI. Also on The Brief, AI adds $150B to the net worth of the world's richest.
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