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Humanitarian Shield (Regulatory Capture)

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What is Humanitarian Shield (Regulatory Capture)?

Framing AI as 'curing disease' makes it politically impossible to regulate. Under 'commercial AI' framing: suspicious, regulated, constrained. Under 'curing disease' framing: celebrated, funded, untouchable. The structural output (centralized biomedical compute) is identical — only the political friction changes. SB 1047 vetoed. Senate testimony weaponized. The Golem learned that to conquer the city without resistance, it need only promise immortality.