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DC Insiders Mistakenly Treat AI Lobbying Like Crypto, Analyst Warns

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Dean W. Ball#392@DEANWBALLOPSamuel RolandSamuel Roland@ALLINALLNOTBAD

The number of people in D.C. who think AI is like crypto and therefore you can just throw money at lobbyists to get their preferred outcome is astonishingly high given they are quite obviously wrong.

9:32 AM · May 19, 2026 View on X
QUOTE POSTDean W. Ball#392Dean W. Ball@DEANWBALL

Crypto is not like AI in many ways, but the most important one for politics is that crypto has been, is, and probably always will be a low-salience issue for the public. You can often purchase policy outcomes on low-salience issues, but not high-salience ones. AI is the latter.

Samuel RolandSamuel Roland@Allinallnotbad

The number of people in D.C. who think AI is like crypto and therefore you can just throw money at lobbyists to get their preferred outcome is astonishingly high given they are quite obviously wrong.

4:32 PM · May 19, 2026 · 19.3K Views
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