This is a good point, and is one of the pitfalls of arguments suggesting that tech cos like OpenAI shouldn’t release things like GPT 4 because there’s too much

This is a good point, and is one of the pitfalls of arguments suggesting that tech cos like OpenAI shouldn’t release things like GPT 4 because there’s too much possible harm. Say OpenAI, Deepmind, and similar AI orgs all decided not to release their best models. They’d certainly still build the models unless we somehow banned AI r&d (a terrible idea). And then we’d end up in a world where only big tech and select licensee partners and elites are enhanced with AI. As you say, the general public wouldn’t be able to keep up. That’s a far worse scenario than the present.