AI is an elite crime spree
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- Panic over AI dangers has led to calls for new regulation, but existing laws against powerful firms are not enforced.
- The FTC under Biden took actions like blocking Nvidia-Arm merger and investigating OpenAI, but lacked political support.
- Trump's administration reversed enforcement efforts, pardoned AI offenders, and discouraged litigation against AI firms.
- Elite consensus in judiciary and politics treats applying laws to powerful tech firms as ridiculous, exemplified by rulings against antitrust remedies.
- The core problem is not lack of regulation but refusal to enforce existing law against the wealthy and powerful.
- Examples of lawlessness include price-fixing, landlord abuse, and corporate threats, showing 'guilty until proven wealthy'.
- Calling for new AI regulation is contradictory if existing laws are unenforced; the real issue is a constitutional crisis of unequal rule of law.
- Enforcing current laws could address AI safety, but requires a cultural shift toward equality before the law.