Joe Perticone
Role at the time: Capitol Hill reporter, The Bulwark
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Joe Perticone questioned whether AI companies' calls for regulation reflect genuine safety concern or regulatory capture.
“You should be very skeptical of CEOs begging "please regulate us."”
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Joe Perticone, The Bulwark, on AI CEOs' calls for regulation.
Why we used this label
Perticone questions whether AI CEOs' calls for regulation are genuine without directly taking a position for or against safeguards themselves -- matching the closest precedent in this case, Kolvet's statement calling industry regulatory lobbying a potential 'Trojan horse,' also classified “Mixed or conditional” rather than “Challenged the characterization”.