The question to Sam and Dario would be: if the thing you are building is going do displace humanity, then why are you building it?
To make Croesus look like some bum under an I-80 overpass.
Kinda like nuclear bombs or similar.
...and AI progress is actually a much more difficult thing to control than nuclear proliferation...
Unlike nuclear bombs there is no rare difficult-to-process ingredient which you can practically limit the supply of, unless you are willing to retroactively outlaw computing devices broadly (after we have spent decades weaving them into the fabric of most people's day to day lives).
And even if you were willing to try that, how do you get global consensus retroactively? It is an impossible situation.
None of what I've written here should be seen as a defense of the people running large AI labs, I don't believe any of them are forces for positive good in the world, but it is just a fact that if they don't "do it" someone else will.
That does seem like a path forward, pity about the wasted resources that could have gone toward more pressing matters like climate.
Are you just angry and writing nonsensical words? Do you actually think that Iran can blow up a meaningful portion of the data centers in the world?
Do you think someone else will actually do it?
That doesn't seem very likely to me, whereas someone else stepping up to run openai or anthropic does seem very likely.
Some even say you have a moral obligation to do it in that case.
For some reason that phrase "Surprise - it's money" as the obvious signal of extortion really stuck with me.