Having high-trust relationships between labs and governments, and more generally ensuring policy-makers are well-informed, seems robustly positive.
This is too simplistic. In reality governments are not monolithic so although a certain lab may have ‘high trust relationships’ with one or more subdivision of the relevant government, it may have adversarial relationships with other subdivisions of the same government.
This is further complicated by the fact that most modern societies are structured around the government having multiple subdivisions with overlapping jurisdiction, each sufficiently influential to have a veto over substantial decision making of the whole government but not sufficient, by themselves, to push through anything.
So this view abstracts away the most challenging coordination problems.
This is too simplistic. In reality governments are not monolithic so although a certain lab may have ‘high trust relationships’ with one or more subdivision of the relevant government, it may have adversarial relationships with other subdivisions of the same government.
This is further complicated by the fact that most modern societies are structured around the government having multiple subdivisions with overlapping jurisdiction, each sufficiently influential to have a veto over substantial decision making of the whole government but not sufficient, by themselves, to push through anything.
So this view abstracts away the most challenging coordination problems.