I just want to remind that simply having some of the company budget allocated to pay people to spend their time thinking about and studying the potential impacts of the technology the company is developing, is in itself a good thing.
About the possibility that they would come to the conclusion the most rational thing would be to stop the development—I think the concern here is moot anyway because of the many player dilemma in the AI space (if one stops the others don’t have to), which is (I think) impossible to solve from inside any single company anyway.
inb4 OpenAI board put their whole bankroll short on Microsoft stock, will sell on Monday for XX billion and build their own chip factory. 😁