Regulatory Capture in Artificial Intelligence Markets: Oligopolistic Preservation Strategies

This 12-minute video from Pragmatic AI Labs analyzes the regulatory capture strategies employed by dominant AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. Examine how these companies use national security narratives to establish market protectionism, drawing parallels to Microsoft's anti-FOSS campaigns of the 1990s. Discover the tactical maneuvers employed, including geopolitical framing that classifies competitors as security threats, technical argumentation with logical inconsistencies, and value preservation rhetoric claiming proprietary code worth "millions." Learn about the economic motivations behind these strategies, including perfect competition avoidance and artificial scarcity engineering. The analysis concludes that regulatory frameworks ostensibly designed for security enhancement primarily function as competition suppression mechanisms, with AI commoditization representing the fundamental threat to current market leaders.