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Perhaps the "high-level access only" ideology extends to policy considerations as well. End-users appear to have no shortage of time or ideas to make AI trip over its shadow in ways that may have unfortunate policy implications for corporations with uncomfortably-large social and political footprints (where "footprint" represents "potential impact" and does not indicate extant specifics).

In much the same way the App Store is an infuriating shh-don't-call-it-censorship bottleneck that gives Apple total and final control over what your (sorry, Apple's) devices can do, I wonder if political considerations represents a portion of Apple's motivation to keep things reasonably locked down. Obviously Apple can just kick apps it doesn't like out of the App Store, and binaries that would need to be downloaded and run directly on Macs is exceedingly unlikely to go viral to the same extent, so perhaps I'm overthinking things to the point of paranoia.