I'm leaning towards this as a big reason. PhDs really want to publish and they tend not to put as much effort into or not find interesting work that cannot be p

I'm leaning towards this as a big reason. PhDs really want to publish and they tend not to put as much effort into or not find interesting work that cannot be published. The trend in academia is towards making your code and data available but now you can now get around that by saying AI safety.