Can we govern AI if the builders control the regulators?
When the people building advanced AI can directly veto government oversight by lobbying the White House, does traditional regulation become impossible—or do we need a fundamentally different model for governing technology this consequential?
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In this week’s Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts episode (May 23, 2026), the hosts explored how Trump’s AI vetting executive order collapsed in hours after calls from Musk, Zuckerberg, and White House AI czar David Sacks—essentially giving the industry the power to prevent its own oversight. The episode highlighted how this creates a perverse incentive structure: the same people profiting from ungoverned AI development are now positioned to block the frameworks meant to govern it. What makes this especially urgent is that this isn’t a hypothetical—the killed order would have required Pentagon-style red-teaming before deployment, and now states like California and New York are scrambling to fill the void. Tune in to hear the full analysis of what this means for national security and whether decentralized state-level regulation can work where federal oversight failed.
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