Actually, it's easily solvable, even by proper application of existing law, but no solution is possible when big AI is above the law and can hack anybody willy-nilly. The absolute worst we could do is to listen to big AI's pleas to put them in an even more privileged position.

> “If we don’t do it, someone will.”

Do what? There are a lot more choices than "let big AI freely hack everybody" and "stop everybody else from working on AI".

> We won’t stop until we see the whites of death‘s eyes.

Trotting out "the whites of death ‘s eyes" is how real discussion is subverted into a BS binary choice. Open-sourcing all AI is an excellent starting point which will both slow down development to a naturally beneficial pace and allow the broader public to police and weed out bad models.