There's a lot of vocal hangers on in the AI community that hijack the discussion towards "harms" and whatnot. Not to say it's not worth thinking about but it's

There's a lot of vocal hangers on in the AI community that hijack the discussion towards "harms" and whatnot. Not to say it's not worth thinking about but it's run amok to the point that models are neutered (contrained within what a very specific political alignment calls ethics) before they're even used for anything, because someone speculates that somehow somewhere someone could do something bad with it. It's a dumb approach and hopefully as AI tools become more widely available and the activists move on, we can focus on building good AI and then putting guardrails in place for specific applications as required, rather than this "only the enlightened can be trusted with it" approach. Imagine if this is what had happened with general purpose computing. There are those that wish it had and see this as an opportunity to claw back some of their power.