The point of OpenAI’s safety efforts is not to reduce harm, the point of OpenAI’s safety efforts is to be blandly inoffensive to low-to-moderate information observers so as to mitigate the ability of anyone concerned with harm to marshal resistance. Serious efforts to reduce harm across the whole scope of GPT-4’s subject areas (i.e., everything) or to reduce its scope to a domain in which meaningful harm mitigation would be more tractable would slow things down too much, and OpenAI’s strategic drive is to move forward as fast as they can, keeping control as centralized as possible; they see it as an AGI arms race where winning is paramount, and commercial dominance of the earlier steps and building public support for tight control along the way is similarly central.