Anthropic is, in particular, bent about safety. The problem is they are concerned about yesterday's threats.
The models that are out, and can be run locally, already open a pandoras box of concerns that we will never be able to put back.
Ukraine admits to making autonomous kills on people 2 years ago: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomou...
Slaughterbots Sci Fi short was 6 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
Today this is buildable, many models will happily help you glue everything you need together to make swapping in a new version of YOLO to track humans viable.
AI researches are out there worrying about the paper clip problem, about the singularity, about cyber security, about bio weapons, and drug manufacturing.
None of them are thinking about forward looking threat actor models.
And you probably could find some earlier sci-fi too.
Good one.
That said, the AI companies are one of the few places where they take future concerns so seriously, that they entertain concerns most people observing them think are head-in-the-clouds-sci-fi-levels-of-delusional, e.g. "what goes wrong if it works?"
This does not make them correct about the threats of tomorrow. Prediction is hard, especially about the future.