If we rewind the clock, Google was taking LLM development very seriously and it seems they were moving glacially due to not having solved all the potential threats. They were really hardcore on safety. Dario and anthropic too.

Then sama was like "lol, oops, first mover advantage i guess" and released chatgpt out into the open, triggering the current arms race we are in.

I don't think anyone except him wanted this to happen, especially since consensus in the AI world for the prior decade was "go very slow and very carefully, we get one shot at not fucking this up".