It might be too far, but to me this piece seems aimed at increasing concerns among regulators about AI. OpenAI might view regulation as a means of ensuring their competitive edge as other big players enter the AI space.
To me this reads like a lot of grant applications after 9/11 where researchers scribbled out whatever they were working on and wrote about bioterrorism-related diseases instead.
The number of projects I had to sit through about developing sophisticated methods to detect smallpox attacks, when the actual answer is "Smallpox is extinct. If you find one case, it's an emergency", were...myriad.
The number of projects I had to sit through about developing sophisticated methods to detect smallpox attacks, when the actual answer is "Smallpox is extinct. If you find one case, it's an emergency", were...myriad.