Companies building frontier models have spent years warning that their own products may create catastrophic risks. Those concerns deserve serious analysis, but the public framing also shapes regulation—and regulation eventually lands on the teams building ordinary tools for real businesses.
The practical reality is more grounded
In daily production work, even the strongest models require structure, correction, oversight, and domain expertise. They can be remarkably useful and still make reasoning errors, miss context, or optimize for the wrong interpretation of an instruction.
Safety and progress are not opposites
Good policy should address real risks without freezing responsible experimentation or leaving smaller American builders unable to compete. Fear is not a substitute for specific rules, evidence, and proportionate controls.