The Conflict-of-Interest Problem at the Heart of AI Policy

What the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice process revealed is that legal ambiguity in AI regulation is not an oversight — it is the preferred outcome for actors with commercial exposure ^[2]. When the same individuals who stand to profit from AI are placed at the drafting table, vague language becomes a negotiated achievement, not a gap to be corrected in the next revision. The conflict of interest is not incidental to the process; it is load-bearing.