Before OpenAI was ever even founded, way before any regulatory capture plausible claims:

"Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen (for example, an engineered virus with a long incubation period and a high mortality rate) but are unlikely to destroy every human in the universe in the way that SMI could." -Sam Altman

Dario discussing AGI Existential Risk in 2014 before OpenAI and Anthropic: https://intelligence.org/2014/01/13/miri-strategy-conversati...

Both companies have deluded themselves into thinking the arms race is going to happen anyway and they need to rush to it first, as if somehow that helps.