If we agreed with your premise that AI is a great filter and that this filter can somehow be contained by a small group, then I guess what it boils down to is two choices:

1. either lock everything down and accept the control of a small unaccountable group to dictate the future of humanity according to their morals and views - and I believe that AI will fundamentally shape how humanity will work and think, or 2. continue to uphold the ideas of individual freedom and democratic governance and accept a relative increase in the chance of a great filter event occurring.

I, like many here, am firmly against ggp's position. The harm that our spices sustains from having this technology controlled by the few far outweighs the marginal risk increase of some great filter occurring.

I will continue to help ensure that this technology remains open for everyone regardless their views, morals, and convictions until the day I die.