This is genuinely confusing since Sama seems to be actively fighting for regulatory capture. I like the message of open weights - and even support it - but I don't see the point of this letter if there's no action to back it up.
this is presumably part of why openai and anthropic have not been shy about advertising the scarier strains of their models, these past few months; they basically have to force the white house's hand or risk being commoditized among the various other options in a microsoft/openrouter dropdown.