Ultimately, companies such as OpenAI aren’t harmed by any of this hand-wringing over safety worries. In fact, they’re helped by it. This news cycle feeds the hype that AI models are on the cusp of achieving “artificial general intelligence,” which would mean models are generally better than human beings at thinking tasks (still aspirational today). And besides, if governments are moved to put tight regulations on AI development, it’ll only entrench the well-monied tech companies that have already built them.
