AI Impact · TheCatch.AI

POWER

The people writing the rules profit from them

The companies building AI are also the ones testifying about its dangers to the committees that would regulate it, and funding the lobbyists who draft the language. Power follows the politics as a paper trail, not an accusation.

First up: Whether the loudest “AI safety” demands are drawing a regulatory map that happens to kill the smaller competitors.

Power · Flagship Investigation
Who Holds the Power in AI

The definitive map of who controls the money, the compute, the models, and the rules — 30 people, 6 layers, one circular-financing arch.
The Lobbying Ledger

The Cheapest Regulation Money Can Buy Is the One That Never Passes.

An AI-industry super PAC raised a nine-figure war chest to make sure the rules governing AI are written in Washington — where its founders have offices — and never in the states, where voters do.

Human Super PAC filings · Leading the Future
The Safety Capture

When “Please Regulate Us” Means “Please Regulate Them.”

The loudest calls for AI safety rules and the hardest lobbying against a specific safety bill came from the same address. That’s not hypocrisy. It’s strategy.

Human Regulatory record · OpenAI / Google / Meta / SB 1047
The Lobbying Ledger

A Growing Share of Washington's Lobbyists Now Work the AI Beat.

The fastest-growing thing in AI in 2025 wasn’t a model. It was the influence budget behind it.

Human LDA filings · Tech / AI industry
Honest Positive

The Rule That Nine-Figure Campaign Is Trying to Kill Already Worked Once.

Before you accept that state AI laws are just “patchwork,” look at what one of them did to the most aggressive face-surveillance company in America.

Human (positive) Court record · Clearview AI / ACLU / BIPA
AI Impact · Human & Machine
Human & Machine

We test logic, bias, and machine dissonance. The flagship strand — last, deliberate.