Yes, but if they're worried about competition (or liabilities for past and ongoing transgressions, or both) catching up with them and wanted the government to step in and save them from themselves by regulating the industry...they'd be doing pretty much what they seem to be doing. Interesting, isn't it?

If only!

Alas natural selection (other people didn't try to start companies to make superintelligent AI) has picked leaders with the opposite strategy - do it first, and try to use that power to control everyone else in, at best, an attempt to stop disasters caused by others.