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Comment by Paul Nemitz
Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Europe; former Principal Advisor and Director at the European Commission
A careful reading of this document in light of OpenAI's—and its close partner Microsoft's—actual lobbying record reveals a deep chasm between the company's public rhetoric and its political maneuvering in relation to democratic legislation. [...] The 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age' should be read for what it is: a carefully crafted piece of corporate diplomacy designed to shape the regulatory environment in ways that protect OpenAI's interests while offering the public a comforting but largely unenforceable set of promises.AI Verified source (2026)
Verification History
AI Verified
Quote attributed to Paul Nemitz (2026). The techpolicy.press source_url returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but web search confirmed the article exists at that exact URL ("The Doublespeak in OpenAI's 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age'") authored by Nemitz, and corroborated the quote verbatim: he describes the document as "a carefully crafted piece of corporate diplomacy designed to shape the regulatory environment in ways that protect OpenAI's interests while offering the public a comforting but largely unenforceable set of promises," and notes "a deep chasm between the company's public rhetoric and its political maneuvering." Year (2026) current and correct. Author attribution confirmed. ACTION TAKEN: I removed this quote's association with statement 443 ("Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth") because the quote is a critique of OpenAI's lobbying/regulatory doublespeak and does not address equity contributions or global dividends — it is not about the meaning of that statement, so the "for" vote linkage was inappropriate. The quote text itself is accurate and correctly sourced.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 18d ago
replying to Paul Nemitz