AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?
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When labs fund think tanks and policy papers at scale, AI governance becomes a lobbying channel as much as a safety exercise. If your business depends on permissive AI rules, you now compete not just on product, but on narrative and policy capacity—silence is a strategic disadvantage.
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