Deliberately keeping all models ignorant doesn't make sense. It won't work (whoever breaks the pact has a massive advantage); it won't be enforceable; it will have downstream impacts on things you don't want it to be ignorant about; this kind of regulatory regime invites adding more and more to the "no-no list".
Is it not possible to focus on hardening? And on new legal liabilities for operators who do security attacks?
I agree that it’s not obviously sustainable, but it’s better than specifically training these tools to be good at wreaking havoc, and then putting on a shocked pikachu face when they wreak havoc (ahem, Sam Altman).
Yet we keep completely unpunished offences that warrant arrests if committed by humans, and let them dictate who has access to what.