It sounds to me like he wants you to believe the effective way to lobby for a ban on open source A.I. development is to use the same "classic" methods that someone in the 1950s used to lobby for coffee beans.

Therefore, as they are not acting like 1950s coffee bean sellers, they can't be doing regulatory capture.

That's the only possibly explanation why they don't lobby like coffee bean sellers.

These industries and eras are completely interchangeable.