{"slug": "beware-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch", "title": "Beware the AI bosses ‘please regulate us’ bait-and-switch", "summary": "Top AI companies including Anthropic and OpenAI are seeking federal liability protections under the guise of warning about AI risks, according to a New York Post opinion piece, which cites Vice President JD Vance calling the combination of doom-mongering and pleas for oversight \"a Trojan horse.\" The piece points to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, staffed with former Biden and Obama intelligence officials, and OpenAI's hiring of Jessica Schumer, daughter of Sen. Chuck Schumer, for a top policy job. Former President Barack Obama has urged Democrats to make AI regulation central to their agenda, while the piece argues companies could adopt guardrails themselves and that liability protection would remove their incentive to keep products safe.", "body_md": "Top AI companies are blatantly seeking special privileges under cover of warning against the AI-pocalypse.\n\nThat’s the best explanation for the sudden [flurry of doom-mongering](https://nypost.com/2026/09/12/us-news/ai-ceos-demand-the-industry-slow-the-pace-of-advancements/) from CEOs like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.\n\nThese moguls say their industry needs to tap the brakes on the tech’s rapid progress, but will (rightly) warn that still the United States still needs to beat China in the AI-development race — leaving “the only choice” to be a de-facto cartelization, with the feds setting up guardrails *and* offering their companies protections against disastrous mistakes.\n\nThat is: What they *really* want is to protect themselves from liability by shifting responsibility to the government. \n\nThink of the Section 230 shield for social media, blogs and online platforms from libelous content posted by users, except this would protect Anthropic etc. if their AIs go rogue, causing billions or *trillions* of dollars in damage.\n\nOr how “too big to fail” protected the megabanks that bumbled their way into the 2007-08 global financial crisis.\n\nGetting off the hook for harms their tech causes would put the AI giants in great positions for their coming IPOs.\n\nThe cynical combo of doom-mongering and pleas for federal oversight feels like “a Trojan horse,” Vice President [JD Vance fumed](https://nypost.com/2026/09/14/us-news/jd-vance-fires-back-after-ai-honchos-demand-to-slow-the-pace-of-tech-development-bit-of-a-trojan-horse/) Monday — quite rightly.\n\nAs a plus for progressives, this scheme is sure to produce a vast new pack of lefty billionaires.\n\nYes, AI firms and their backers have been funneling millions to political candidates of *both* parties.\n\nYet Amodei, most obviously, has long worked closely with Democrats: As [The Post’s Miranda Devine reports](https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/opinion/obama-and-the-dems-are-suspiciously-sounding-the-ai-apocalypse-alarm-just-in-time-for-the-midterms/), Anthropic’s “bipartisan” National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council is *riddled* with ex-Biden and -Obama intel officials.\n\nA former national-security adviser to Sen. Chuck Schumer is also on the panel.\n\nOh, and Altman’s [OpenAI just hired the senator’s daughter](https://nypost.com/2026/09/07/business/openai-hires-chuck-schumers-daughter-as-big-tech-cozies-up-to-democrats-ahead-of-midterms-report/), Jessica Schumer, for a top policy job.\n\nMany of this crew are devotees of [the feel-good lefty movement](https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/media/cult-like-effective-altruism-spreading-its-message-among-the-influential-with-80-journalists-embedded-at-top-news-orgs/) Effective Altruism — whose Tarbell Center for AI Journalism actually *pays the salaries* of journalists embedded with mainstream news outlets like Time, Bloomberg, The Guardian and NBC News.\n\nFormer President Barack Obama recently joined the campaign, warning of AI’s dangers and urging Dems to make AI regulation the heart of their political agenda — pushing for the cartel that Altman and Amodei want in the *name* of reining them in. \n\nDon’t fall for the hysteria: If these companies want guardrails to avoid AI tragedies, [they can adopt them](https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/opinion/dario-amodei-needs-to-face-his-own-duty-to-prevent-ai-mageddon/)  all by themselves.\n\nIndeed, nothing will motivate them toward caution more than knowing they’ll be held liable; offer protections, and you *remove* their incentive to keep their products safe.\n\nSo let them slow down, if that’s what they think wise.\n\nHaving the American public to protect them from responsibility for getting it wrong is just foolish.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/beware-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch", "canonical_source": "https://nypost.com/2026/09/14/opinion/dont-fall-for-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch/", "published_at": "2026-09-14 22:59:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 23:26:44.037246+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Dario Amodei", "Sam Altman", "JD Vance", "Chuck Schumer", "Jessica Schumer", "Barack Obama"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/beware-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/beware-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/beware-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/beware-the-ai-bosses-please-regulate-us-bait-and-switch.jsonld"}}