Here's an unpopular opinion: this might be the only way to deploy advanced models. A lot of people compare advanced AI with nuclear weapons. Creating white lists of users that are allowed to use advanced AI feels wrong. It feels against everything that the Constitution stands for. That men are created equal and they are free to pursue their happiness. Now they are free to pursue that happiness only if the US Government signs off on that. It hurts to only think of that. But I'm afraid there's no other way. These models, in the wrong hands, can result in unfathomable devastation.

How do I know? Dario Amodei said that when he explained why Anthropic has to limit the US Government's usage of its models [1]:

  > Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases [...]: Mass domestic surveillance. Fully autonomous weapons. 

If the US Government can't be trusted with such uses, then how can you trust millions or billions of users with arbitrary usage?

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war