It is purely psychological. He is selling fear through scaremongering about safety when that is just a marketing scapegoat for everyone to continue buying more tokens to use Claude.
Why do you think he continues to scare-monger about open weight models?
Hmm. So you're saying that he's intentionally overhyping the danger of ML models in a cynical play to eliminate open models through regulation or backlash, when in reality there is no danger. But if this is the case why isn't Altman and Demis saying the same?