“It’s also notable that AI giants have been bending Sunak’s ear in person in recent weeks, with meetings taking place between the PM and the CEOs of OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic shortly before the government mood music on AI changed.”
Rishi Sunak put £100 million into an AI safety taskforce right after private meetings with the three CEOs whose models it will study. The companies decide how much access to give, which decides what research gets done. That is not oversight. The regulated wrote the syllabus before the regulator showed up for class.