Alternatively, they could stop advocating for government control of “dangerous” (aka competitively advanced) models.
If you are running a pull-up-the-ladder play, it helps to be ensconced above it first.
If you are running a pull-up-the-ladder play, it helps to be ensconced above it first.
But, granting it for the sake of argument, yeah, they're clearly failing there: if other companies are able to outcompete them on the regulatory capture front, then if that's their strategy then they're losing.