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235_047predictionGeopoliticsAI-scaling

AI regulatory roles will be filled by Anthropic/OpenAI people bouncing back and forth (like SEC/Goldman Sachs).

Predictor: Dave Blundin · ep#235 "Amazon's $35B AGI Ultimatum to OpenAI & Anthropic Drops AI Safety | EP #235" · source

Prior probability
65.0%
Current probability
50.4%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
4/5
Signal quality
A
Resolution
pending
Window
2027-06-01 – 2027-06-30
Edges in / out
11 / 5
Tickers exposed
37

Prediction text

AI regulatory roles will be filled by Anthropic/OpenAI people bouncing back and forth (like SEC/Goldman Sachs). | What's going to happen next is anthropic people and open AI people are going to actually be the people working in the self-regulating agency. And so the the the people will have to bounce back and forth and they'll do it because they're they're worried.

Watch events: Anthropic ARR updates quarterly; potential Oct 2026 IPO; OpenAI next funding round; IPO timing; revenue disclosures

Verbatim quote

From episode "Amazon's $35B AGI Ultimatum to OpenAI & Anthropic Drops AI Safety | EP #235"
What's going to happen next is anthropic people and open AI people are going to actually be the people working in the self-regulating agency. And so the the the people will have to bounce back and forth and they'll do it because they're they're worried.

Resolution evidence

Status: pending

Anthropic/OpenAI people in AI regulatory roles — some movement (Jack Clark testified to Congress; ex-OpenAI in DoD); not fully SEC/Goldman-style revolving door yet.

Predictor: Dave Blundin

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.821
Brier
0.0491
excellent
Hits / Misses
3 / 2
of 9 resolved
Hit rate
33.3%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Dave Blundin is multiplied by κ in /api/intake. Lower κ = less weight; floors at 0.10 (effectively silenced) and caps at 1.00 (full weight).

Reference class: regulatory_freeze_window

Linked via embedding similarity 0.588

Major-country regulatory pause/moratorium on AI capability research lasting >6 months

Base rate
5.0%
0/4 historical
Inside weight
Outside weight
no pull
inside 50.4% → blend 50.4% 0.0pp)

Tetlock-style outside view: at TRF=1 (just predicted), outside view dominates (w_in=0.3). At TRF=0 (deadline), inside view dominates (w_in=1.0). The blend regularizes overconfident inside views toward the historical base rate.

Probability over time

8 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 65%2026-04-302026-05-032026-05-24
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 50.4%

Milestone chain

Pre-event signals (upstream prereqs + window checkpoints) → resolution event → downstream cascades. Status/dates update from linked nodes; re-derive nightly via scripts/ops/derive_milestones.py.
Leading chain: 5 fired ✓ · 4 pending
  1. 2026-03-03hitAnthropic banned from federal procurement, OpenAI captures contracts
    How: Trump executive order or DOD memo phases out Anthropic across federal agencies; OpenAI announces replacement contract (e.g., StateChat GPT-4.1)
    Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-was-the-pentagons-choice-for-ai-now-its-banned-and-experts-are-worried.htmlconf 97%
    Notes: HIT - directly evidences politicized procurement creating revolving-door pressure between labs and government.
  2. 2026-01-01 → 2027-12-31pendingSenior Anthropic or OpenAI policy lead takes federal AI regulatory role
    How: Public confirmation (LinkedIn, agency press release) of a senior frontier-lab policy/safety hire moving into a federal AI oversight role (NIST, AISI, OSTP, DOJ AI Litigation Task Force)
    Source: https://www.theailobby.com/ - tracks ex-government AI lobbyists and revolving-door movementsconf 70%
  3. 2026-01-01 → 2027-12-31pendingFederal AI oversight body or self-regulatory body formally established
    How: Self-regulatory or federal AI agency (e.g., AI Safety Institute formalization, NIST CAISI, or industry SRO) given staffing and rulemaking authority
    Source: https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2025/12/trump-executive-order-state-ai-regulationconf 75%
  4. 2026-06-01 → 2027-12-31pendingEx-frontier-lab person returns from government to lab
    How: Former government AI regulator (NIST, FTC, DoD, OSTP) joins or rejoins OpenAI / Anthropic / Google DeepMind in a senior policy role
    Source: https://www.theailobby.com/conf 55%
    Notes: Cascade - completes the SEC/Goldman-style 'bouncing back and forth' dynamic the predictor describes.

What if this resolves?

Clamp this prediction TRUE or FALSE and run a counterfactual Gibbs sample. Surfaces the predictions whose marginals shift most under that assumption.
(live posterior: 50%)

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Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-24T02:00:02Z50.4%+1.4pp
Network propagation: 49.0% → 50.4%
4-iter LBP, residual 0.01000 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 806b02f8
LBP2026-05-17T02:00:01Z49.0%+3.0pp
Network propagation: 46.0% → 49.0%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00689 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e607fa96
LBP2026-05-10T02:00:02Z46.0%+5.9pp
Network propagation: 40.1% → 46.0%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00584 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e5c18d29
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z40.1%+10.9pp
Network propagation: 29.1% → 40.1%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z29.1%+15.8pp
Network propagation: 13.3% → 29.1%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
legacy v12026-04-30T16:13:50Z13.3%-16.5pp
reference_class_assigned bayesian_v2 inside=0.650 blend=0.133 w_in=0.30 regulatory_freeze_window
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z29.8%+16.5pp
Network propagation: 13.3% → 29.8%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v1 · run 592311ef
legacy v12026-04-30T01:56:50Z13.3%-51.7pp
reference_class_assigned bayesian_v2 inside=0.650 blend=0.133 w_in=0.30 regulatory_freeze_window

Network propagation neighbors

Top edges sorted by latest LBP cross-impact
All propagation →

Top incoming (parents)

Edges that influence THIS node's belief

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
killerTK03
AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze)
10.0%0.0500.650+0.086
killerTK02
AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption)
12.0%0.0500.650+0.074
killerTK09
Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall)
35.0%0.0500.650-0.064
prereqSEM_014
Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated Jensen Huang
86.1%0.6500.050+0.057
killerTK01
AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall)
15.0%0.0500.650+0.056

Top outgoing (children)

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Ticker exposure

37 ticker(s) linked

Beneficiaries (24)

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Adverse (6)

ACNGENCHGGIBMWNSLRN

Prerequisites (11)

Predictions that must hit first
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereqSEM_011Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips.Capital Markets
prereqSEM_027Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon.Capital Markets
prereqSEM_014Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025).Manufacturing
prereqSEM_012Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering.AI/Manufacturing
prereqSEM_015Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directly to US government in exchange for reversing specific AI chip export bans.Policy/Semis
correlateS_AI_PAUSE_2028AI pause beginning 2028ai_regulatory_pause
killerTK09Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall)
killerTK05Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028)
killerTK01AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall)
killerTK02AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption)
killerTK03AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze)

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prereq246_016Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034.Space
prereq240_036TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electric needs by 2040Energy
prereq232_057First person to arrive on moon/Mars will find bed made by Optimus robots; robots not astronauts lead exploration.Robotics
prereq242_023World will have 10x more wealth around 2034-2036Macro/Economy

Expected milestones (1)

From Sheet 17 Monitoring Triggers
Expected byDescriptionStatus
2031-03-31[Geopolitics 2031-03] [235_047] Anthropic ARR updates quarterly; potential Oct 2026 IPO; OpenAI next funding round; IPO timing; reve [248_030] FDA will be first government agency forced to get out of the way; government mus [231_01pending

Linked documents (2)

Auto-generated by cosine similarity from Polymarket / Manifold / EDGAR / GDELT
SimSourceTitleMarket probPolarityReviewedPublished
0.721manifoldWill an OpenAI or Anthropic employee comment on this market first?mentionspending2026-06-01
0.714manifoldWill OpenAI and Anthropic’s S1s be a “massacre” for AI model companies?18%mentionspending2026-06-03

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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