> "The author argues that you're a nutjob if you don't trust what large corporations are saying"

That wasn't the message I was trying to communicate at all.

My point with this piece is that people don't trust AI companies, and companies need to figure out what to do about this - that's why I called it a "crisis".

I certainly didn't argue that big companies would "do the morally correct thing even though it hurts their profit".

> "In a post-trust society, companies have to prove they're doing what they say. There's no more making a statement and having the masses act as if that's what's going to happen."

I think you and I might be in strong agreement there. My goal in writing this company is to get AI companies to take this problem seriously and, like you said, "prove they're doing what they say".