Just to be clear to those replying to me about the ethical considerations: the point I'm trying to make isn't that these companies shouldn't be ethical; it's th

Just to be clear to those replying to me about the ethical considerations: the point I'm trying to make isn't that these companies shouldn't be ethical; it's that if they actually behaved ethically (at least in the way this blog post describes), they'd be at an extreme disadvantage compared to these other companies who aren't behaving ethically. Norway will have invested in a company just to run it into the ground by enforcing stricter ethical constraints on it compared to its peers. This dynamic is definitely not limited to AI companies and it's pretty obvious to anyone who has ever contemplated the ethics of capitalism as a whole. And if it matters, I don't think these companies behave particularly unethically compared to other large companies. You can take issue with where the baseline of ethics has been set of these kinds of companies, but at the end of the day ethics is a constraint that limits the success of a company in terms of our capitalistic system. Inducing a stronger version of this constraint in a single company, regardless of how preposterous the scenario is, will necessarily lead to that company doing worse than it would have otherwise. The OP doesn't address this dynamic in their post, but it's also a fundamental dynamic of the premise of their post.