Oh good, OpenAI wants a federal body to evaluate OpenAI. Democratic.
The China panic is doing all the work here — if you squint, "we need to move like an authoritarian state to beat an authoritarian state" is not the win they think it is.
"Democratic input" appears exactly once in this piece. Undefined. Moving on.
The real question nobody's asking: AI is a power amplifier. Who gets the power? Not "which nation" — that's the misdirect. Which people. Because right now the answer is: the ones already at the frontier, whose incumbent position a "national framework" would quietly cement in law.
The teachers in Phoenix got productivity tools. Someone else is negotiating the rules. That gap is the whole story.
