Now that I see this in the light of the recent sama article, I wonder whether the point of the "it's too dangerous" rhetoric is to enable "Open" AI to avoid open-sourcing the weights and process.
A convenient pretext for maintaining a monetizable competitive advantage while claiming a benevolent purpose.
They don't need an excuse to not open the model weights (unfortunately). As far as I know the only western lab to release weights of a former flagship model is xAI with Grok 2. They said they were going to do the same for Grok 3 but nothing so far.
They have no obligation to do any open releases, it's just good PR for recruitment, fundraising, and devrel
A convenient pretext for maintaining a monetizable competitive advantage while claiming a benevolent purpose.