Currently there are think tanks, private equity firms, governments, ... who are trying to achieve these goals, they just put them in rosier terms. AI potentially can empower the other side too, democratize access to information

Alas I think there's an asymmetry in the usefulness of that information. Maybe knowing you could be optimally evil can help fight that evil, but it's a far cry from telling you what you could do about it.

Only if we can get a pre-tuned, truly open and powerful model. Otherwise those in power can only give us access to models deliberately hobbled to compete with their full-power versions.