Turmoil at OpenAI shows we must address whether AI developers can regulate themselves

The OpenAI sacking affair highlights ongoing debates over the safety and misuse of AI.

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Nobody can regulate themselves. There. I made a whole lot of things easier.
- An artificial intelligence designed to the task could, but
  
  But then it will follow hallucinated regulations.
  
  My conspiracy theory is that AI is already running OpenAI, which explains all the weird erratic decisions
Narrator: they can't
- ...and they shouldn't even if they could.
Nobody can regulate themselves, that's like... the whole point of regulation
Expand that to any of the toddler-brained tech bros and you've got a plan started.
- Because we want a bunch of 80 year olds telling tech what to do.
  
  They already do that. Doesn't make the Elons not also a problem.
Spoiler alert: No business regulates themselves effectively. Those that do only do it under duress of govt doing it if they don't.
In other words, this is more corporate propaganda trying to vilify open source LLMs because they can bypass regulations.
They can't, businesses explicitly are incompatible with self-regulation. I'm not saying let's overregulate the hell out of everything and stop all growth and prevent anything from being possible, but I think there's probably a middle ground here.
Tell me one industry that's ever self regulated properly.

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