This just screams pretext to regulatory capture to me.
While I wouldn't put it past e.g. Musk or Zuckerberg to think themselves above such outcomes, and I trust the people who keep telling me Altman is just as bad, this is a really really terrible idea if he is doing that for something as mundane as a regulatory capture.
* depending on the details of the hack; this doesn't look like it would be that, but given they shouldn't have done this at all, there's no reason to predict a specific level of maximum damage before being caught, and hence no reason to predict a specific threshold for government response.
Next thing you'll tell me the Australian government doesn't have crack teams of crazed wombats and funnel-web spiders, trained for assassination purposes.
Sounds like a great concept for the next season of Danger 5.
That said, I can hear the accent in my head:
The name's Bond. Bruce bloody Bond.