It'd be naive if it wasn't literally a standard point that is addressed and acknowledged as being a major part of the problem.
There's a reason OpenAI's charter had this clause:
“We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.””
How does that address the issue? I would have expected them to do that anyhow. Thats what a lot of businesses do: let another company take the hit developing the market, R and D, and supply chain, then come in with industry standardization and cooperative agreements only after the money was proven to be good in this space. See electric cars. Also they could drop that at any time. Remember when openAI stood for opensource?
Neither mention anything about open-source, although a later update mentions publishing work (“whether as papers, blog posts, or code”), which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of “everything will be open-source” as a fundamental principle of the organization.
There's a reason OpenAI's charter had this clause:
“We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.””