In case you are having trouble figuring out what’s going on here is a summary:
Anthropic and OpenAI desperately need regulatory capture or they are going to go out of business, and the Trump administration is not inclined to give it to them
The Democratic party currently has no platform, as Trump is doing fine (other than perhaps the
Iran war but Americans don’t really care about that), but they have identified that AI and data centers are a hot topic that they can ride
So these two somewhat desperate groups have teamed up to run a psyop around the actual real topic of AI safety, greatly exaggerating the risks, with the understanding that if the Democrats get back into power they will provide the regulatory capture needed to keep these companies alive
In return, these companies will support the Democratic Party and help to enforce left-wing ideology through the models
Kind of sucks, but that’s what’s happening, and we need to oppose it because it will not be good if this plan succeeds
https://x.com/johnennis/status/2100551935719788778?s=20
Does this have anything to do with it?;
The Revolving Door Project published a tracker in August 2026 saying it had identified more than 100 former senior Biden administration officials from the White House and executive agencies who subsequently went to AI-related companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Amazon.
Translated from French
The brilliant Joe Lonsdale said it without sugarcoating.
The panic around AI isn’t a fear that’s rising on its own in the population. It’s a lever. Dozens of NGOs are trying to astroturf this fear, just like we astroturfed the climate, just like we’ve already sold all the previous fears. The goal isn’t to protect humanity. The goal is to impose new rules to capture what’s being born. Communism. Globalism. Regulatory capture.
We’re at a shift for humanity.
For the first time, almost everything can still tip to one side or the other: who builds the robots, who writes the models, who allocates the capital, who gets the right to speak. A caste of mediocre people has understood this. Not a caste of geniuses. A caste of takers. Intermediaries, committees, people whose job isn’t to create value but to position themselves between those who create and those who receive. They’ve never had such a big lever. They won’t let it go.
Here’s how it plays out if they succeed.
The West turns into a giant European Union.
Not in the sense of flags and anthems. In the sense of the software. An entire continent where decision-making power has left the builders and landed with the takers. Where every innovation must first survive an impact study, an ethics committee, a standard written by someone who’s never shipped a product. Where the question is no longer “does it work?” but “has it been authorized?”.
Why this form, and not another?
Because all the power will have been shifted. No longer to those who take personal risk to build. To those who extract a rent from fear.
The takers will always find something to make the humanoid robot too dangerous. A scenario. A video. An expert funded by the same network as the standard he recommends. They’ll say it’s for the children, for jobs, for human dignity. And they’ll stack enough rules to discourage the entire industry, except for the incumbents already big enough to pay the lawyers and former regulators. It’s the classic pattern. Pharma loves the FDA against biotech. Big Tech loves complicated regulation against newcomers. Lonsdale says it straight: the big players want to capture the state to crush innovators.
Then comes speech.
The takers will use AI to cut off any form of dissent. Not with a visible gulag. With classifiers, “safety layers,” public-private partnerships, lists of content to downrank. Exactly like during Covid.
The Twitter Files already documented it in the United States. The Twitter Files France too. In October 2020, Macron’s team was demanding Jack Dorsey’s number again and again. The president wanted to write to him directly about the platform’s “new policies.” Around them, NGOs often funded by the state or the EU were suing Twitter to force it to moderate beyond the law. A prosecutor even went after the head of Twitter France for posts comparing police to collaborators during the lockdowns. The software was already there: fear first, censorship by proxy next, the official narrative as the only licit speech.
AI makes this software industrializable. What took emails and meetings now takes an API.
Then nothing will work.
Collectivism doesn’t work. It never has. Not because people are mean. Because a system that breaks prices, profits, and individual responsibilities no longer knows where to put the capital. It allocates badly. It produces shortages with good intentions. It punishes those who see the problem first.
They won’t say the system is dysfunctional.
They’ll say we haven’t tried hard enough. That the resistances come from residual selfishness. That humans will get used to it. That we need just a bit more standards, a bit more training, a bit more surveillance, and that the next generation, raised in it, won’t have that old reflex of preferring their family to the collective abstraction.
It’s the eternal myth.
Not an economic theory. An anthropological project. To manufacture a new man, less selfish, turned toward the collective before his personal interests. The Revolution wanted it. Scientific socialism wanted it. Mao wanted it. Each time, the failure became proof that we needed to go further. Never proof that the software was wrong.
Bad ideas kill first those who believe in them. They depress, they isolate, they force dissonance. You end up defending a world that no longer produces, while accusing those who still do.
It’s not a war against people. It’s a war against a software.
Reconversion is possible. It always has been. Many sincere people have simply taken the wrong frame: eternal scarcity, permanent victims, indispensable intermediaries. AI removes the three pillars at once. Hence the panic. Hence the rush to capture the shift before it makes the frame obsolete.
The 21st century won’t be the one of committees.
It will be the one of those who build faster than the standards. Useful robots. Models open to competition. Countries that accept risk rather than nationalizing it. Individuals who stay turned toward what they love, what they build, their own—and who, precisely because of that, create enough surplus for the collective to truly exist.
The lock isn’t turned yet.
Go build.
https://x.com/brivael/status/2100878126213407065?s=20
Palantir Co-Founder: AI Panic Is Being Used To Push Communism, Globalism, And Regulatory Capture
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