The issue is that people can use open source models to do sophisticated hacks already, but if the sota models at home are neutered, those users have nothing to defend with(unless they go open source as well, until it is export controlled)

Patching a given vulnerability only takes one person (at least approximately speaking). The vast majority of the world can attempt to use the models for criminal means and we'd nonetheless all be better off.

yes, and hiding them or forbiding them will work too :)

It's absolutely a fact that governments will point it at us. The NSA has had Mythos since day one, even after Trump's spat with Anthropic.

All the more reason for us to have access. It's literally the only chance we've got. If society chooses to bury its head into the sand in fear, it will guarantee that the world will degenerate further into the cyberpunk hellscape it's trending towards.