It doesn't strike you as hypocritical that they all talk about safety while continuing to push out tech that's upending multiple industries as we speak? It's tough for me to see it as anything other than lip service.
I'd be on your side if any of them actually chose to keep their technology in the lab instead of tossing it out into the world and gobbling up investment dollars as fast as they could.
How are these two things related at all? When AI companies speak of safety, it's almost always about the "only including data a religious pastor would find safe, and filtering outputs" angle. How's the market and other industries relevant at all? Should AI companies be obligated to care about what happens to other companies? With that point of view, we should've criticized the iPhone for upending the PDA market, or Wacom for "upending" the traditional art market.
I'd be on your side if any of them actually chose to keep their technology in the lab instead of tossing it out into the world and gobbling up investment dollars as fast as they could.