Well said.

I'm not entirely (ie. at all) comfortable with the fact that that the frontier AIs are completely under the umbrella of US tech-broligarchy.

Diversity has become a divisive topic (probably always was), but some diversity in the leadership of the AI arena would be sorely welcome. The current crop are essentially clones of each other with some minor variance that's probably carefully curated 'points of difference' for the tribalists to attach to.

Musk and Altman may hate each other, but I get the feeling their motivations and vision for the future overlap almost 100% (it's just the throne that they're fighting over, or what to rename the Gulf of Mexico).