"Pichai is just a smart guy who is genuinely worried about" It's the CEO of one of the world's larges companies talking. What he says publicly is fundamentally

"Pichai is just a smart guy who is genuinely worried about" It's the CEO of one of the world's larges companies talking. What he says publicly is fundamentally corporate communications and 'part of this job', it's nary impossible to separate out his 'personal view'. "Nobody is competing with Google or the large players on AI anyway, regulation or not." - this is quite upside down, there are tons of smaller AI players competing indirectly with Google. When Google 'open sources' some research, it may benefit them and others, but put a slew of others out of business. It's not goodwill, it's mostly for profit. By wiping out the encroachment of adjacent industries entirely they keep their moat, and the surpluses in their core line of business. This is the logic behind open sourcing Android. If you think they're just 'nice' consider why they don't open source the rest of their software.