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I don't see it as providing any new information: this was almost so certain as to be predetermined. The MIC is a lucrative and stable system to be integrated into, and the dynamics of capitalism were going to inevitably drive OAI into its arms. Little different from Google pulling out of China for being a totalitarian regime to, five years later, begging Daddy Xi to please let them make money in China.
Safetyists can draw some minimal level of comfort from the fact that OAI priorities will marginally shift from improving capabilities towards AGI to building tools that the MIC desires. More profits, less fundamental/deep research. (And I think that's genuinely good for safetyists: a smarter drone swarm is not going to destroy humanity.)
Not if you think the danger lies in the super-intelligent AI getting control of that smarter drone swarm to achieve its end. I don't believe in the super-intelligent AI, I do believe in ordinary dumb humans getting shiner, more destructive toys, and somebody presses the wrong button or is insufficiently clear about what or who the target should be, and then "oops" but it's too late then. 'How were we supposed to know that setting up autonomous killbots might come back to bite us in the ass? Sorry, widow of Mr. President, we never intended it to be our motorcade that got zapped, it was supposed to be the other guys over the border of the country our guy was visiting at the time'.
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