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> It's very easy to make lazy, shallow dismissals that leaders like Dario/Demis/Sam are acting purely out of self-interest.

It's very easy to make those dismissals because of how transparently obvious it is that self-interest is a significant factor, no matter how loudly they insist otherwise.

> If AI does pose biological risk, or could destabilize geopolitics, or even just poses economic risks, surely a joint petition like this is a good thing?

Similar attitudes hindered nuclear energy research and deployment for decades, in turn kneecapping our species' ability to obsolesce fossil fuels and avoid the global climate catastrophe we've now made inevitable.