The companies talking the most about safety and regulations aren't even properly taking the obvious measures. Shows that it's more of a marketing thing than something they take seriously.
DeepSeek is maybe the only unique company here. They are content with exactly where they are. They don’t want to grow ginormous. Their goal is to be the affordable workhorse and their competition is with themselves. They’ve mentioned before how their business is profitable and all hardware costs get absorbed in 10 months. Pretty incredible. I have a ton of respect for their unassuming founder.
You don't see this kind of behavior in other frontier research areas... biochemists aren't smugly boasting about the potential of developing superviruses, climate scientists do not sound smug and excited when they beg the world to get more serious about climate change, etc
If we want AI to actually have some safety rails, this is what we would do.
Some controls are justifiable, but none of the people involved in any of this can be trusted to develop sane controls. Most likely we're looking at draconian proposals similar to attempted regulations on 3d printers.