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He only feels that way because he's now too far behind to have any hope of being one of the gatekeepers.
If Meta had somehow come out ahead in the AI arms race the message would have been "AI tools are too powerful, only megacorps that can afford to jump through regulatory hurdles should be allowed to control it, and we should pause new approvals until we can get congress to agree on something"
Meanwhile AI billionaires fund both sides of congress to keep it deadlocked so they can maintain their stranglehold.
Capitalism loves false scarcity.