Both can be true: Big companies can lobby for protection and there being risk in the technology that broad diffusion creates additional risks. Cat's out of the

Both can be true: Big companies can lobby for protection and there being risk in the technology that broad diffusion creates additional risks. Cat's out of the bag though - we're still trading mp3s decades after napster, this ghost won't go back into the bottle and realistically, most of the risks people flag are not AI risks, they are societal risks where our existing failure to regulate and create consensus have already gone past the red line (election interference, etc).