I don't want to live in some corporatist future where we plebians have no choice but to eat the table scraps of cloud services that some selfish, political bureaucrat somewhere has deemed acceptable. Because that is the direction we are heading...
Joking aside, I think that's worrying. It immediately calls the researcher's motives into question.
If you treat people like morons they start behaving like them.
The reason (nuerotypical) people are studying in libraries and drunk in bars isn't because their fundamental constitution changes but instead, the context does.
So treat people right and they'll (mostly) reciprocate.
(I'm an exception to this rule somewhere on that vast spectrum. It's a handicap I assure you)
That's precisely the scenario the AI doom crowd is pushing by advocating laws preventing anyone except governments and huge corporations from operating or researching AI.
Autonomous AI going "foom" and deciding out of all the possibilities open to it as a superintelligence to go to war against humanity is incredibly unlikely compared to numerous other existential risks confronting humanity. I wouldn't quite call it impossible as that's a strong word, but it's profoundly less plausible than climate change driven collapse, nuclear war, a beyond-Carrington level solar event, or some rando doing DIY genetic engineering and making a super-disease. Yet these idiots are advocating bans on matrix multiplication when you can buy the supplies to do CRISPR genetic modification at home off Amazon.
Any evidence for this claim?
Pandora's box has been opened, and nobody is capable of closing it. Even if the corporate models exceed the FOSS models right now, the FOSS models we'll have even a year from now will put all of the corporate models to shame.