If you start to look through the optics of business == money making machine, you can start to think at rational regulations to curb this in order to protect the regular people. The regulations should keep business in check while allowing them to make reasonable profits.
Really wish the board had held the line on firing sama.
It is not capitalism, it is human nature. Look at the social stratification that inevitably appears every time communism was tried. If you ignore human nature you will always be disappointed. We need to work with the reality we have on the ground and not with an ideal new human that will flourish in a make believe society.
"Safety" was just a mechanism for complete control of the best LLM available.
When every AI provider did not trust their competitor to deliver "AGI" safely, what they really mean was they did not want that competitor to own the definition of "AGI" which means an IPOing first.
Using local models from China that is on par with the US ones takes away that control, and this is why Anthropic has no open weight models at all and their CEO continues to spread fear about open weight models.
This is more Altman-speak. Before it was about how AI was going to end the world. That started backfiring, so now we're talking about political power. That power, however, ultimately flows from the wealth AI generates.
It's about the money. They're for-profit corporations.
What would they do with money? Pay people to work?