That’s definitely part of it, but I suspect they realise what has come out of Pandora’s box cannot be put back in. I guess you can’t really appreciate how someone can misuse or abuse something until you see it first hand, there will always be things people do which defy your imagination.
They’re only desperate to preserve their first-mover advantage by making it harder for the competition to bring AI products to the market.
That’s definitely part of it, but I suspect they realise what has come out of Pandora’s box cannot be put back in. I guess you can’t really appreciate how someone can misuse or abuse something until you see it first hand, there will always be things people do which defy your imagination.
I don’t think they care about opening “Pandora’s box” as Microsoft in particular had no issues collaborating with the Chinese military on AI research.