»Amodei is “honest,” LeCun concedes. “He’s trying to do the best thing for the company, which is close to its IPO. But claiming AI is too dangerous to put in our hands, and saying it should be regulated, and saying open-source [models] are too dangerous—this is regulatory capture that would have a terrible effect if it’s followed by acts of Congress.”« https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/ Regulatory capture to keep open-source (non US) competition out. As many guessed.