[drdaeman]

It will make it harder for "bad" actors to develop "bad AI" if all those "good" actors will never let anyone access their research, keep it entirely private, and only lease access to the final products. "Bad" actors will have to do everything on their own, and "good" actors will try to hire every good scientist for themselves, and possibly threaten anyone who considers working with "bad" actors or try to make this cooperation harder.

I'm not supporting this, of course. That's just what "good" actors seem to do.