Do you really think companies have the ability to self-check themselves without regulation - what does hundreds of years of history tell you? You're already starting off with the premise that companies are untrustworthy, why would you even suggest this as an argument?
> We can effectively track and trace capabilities
I disagree. There are hundreds if not thousands of data centers around the world, more every day that can host frontier AI. If AI was malicious - either intentional or unintentional - it could hide out in any number of them - and we would never know if we 'got them all'.
> put up the actions that would earn them that trust
I think autonomously hacking another company is all you need to know in terms of trust. And really trust doesn't matter, I think the incident shows even with the best intentions the technology is dangerous; now put that in the hands of people/governments with bad intentions. The unintended consequences of bad intentioned AI is what's coming sooner than later.
Like Anthropic and OpenAI?