"They are the investors of large proprietary AI companies" is just... not true? Not sure where you're even getting this from. I'm a modestly successful upper-middle-class ML engineer, and I've been worried about AI safety since before Facebook, DeepMind, OpenAI, or Anthropic even existed. The most prominent funder of AI risk efforts (Dustin Moskovitz) is a co-founder of Facebook, so if anything he'd be motivated to make Facebook more successful, not its competitors.
Exactly. The moment Sam Altman started talking to Congress about the dangers of AI and how the solution should be only allow licensed companies to develop AI models and that OpenAI should be part of a small board that determines to whom to grant licenses, everyone should have seen it for what it is.
This all smacks of the 80's craze against rap music and video games causing violent behavior.
Where is the evidence that access to uncensored models results in harm (that wouldn't occur due to a bad actor otherwise)? And where is the evidence that said harm reduction is greater than the harm caused by the measurable loss in intelligence in these models?
