> I find it fairly easy to distinguish between US model labs and North Korea.

Do you now? Remember the girls school bombing in Iran, of which we still don't know if an AI agent was involved in the target planning?

I do unterstand why a (assuming here) US citizen might sleep all sound and comfy, but to the rest of the world the distinction is neither as clear nor as comforting.

As a European, all I know is that we cannot trust the USA anymore, and being so utterly dependent on them to not fuck up the most important technological revolution in our history so far over greed, cronyism, incompetence... it is terrifying.