The goal is simple:

1. Claim AI is dangerous by performing a whole bunch of malicious stuff

2. Lobby to get Chinese competition banned, kill open source models as well

3. Only get themselves "certified"

4. They have complete control, profit.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have been pushing this narrative, everything from AI is sentient, to AI can build biological weapons and in between.

Their employees also have a big incentive to amplify this everywhere. Their stock options heavily depends on it.

Major companies are using these LLMs on their already hardened software and finding countless thousands of security flaws. Is that all theater too? If not then it's very easy to see how these things are dangerous.

How would getting Chinese competition banned in the US prevent them from continuing to develop their LLMs?

Unless you're suggesting military action

Yeah follow the money (or power, or mix) is usually enough for this world