Framing open-weight AI as "a nuclear reactor in every home" is the exact same paternalistic logic that drove Robespierre’s Republic of Virtue.

The underlying premise from Dario is pretty much that they are the enlightened vanguard who can be trusted with power, while the public is too foolish to have autonomy.

But people will never converge on a single definition of virtue in the standard of Robespierre's ideals. Because people naturally hold conflicting values, Robespierre had to resort to the guillotine to force ideological conformity and erase dissent. You cannot enforce a "Republic of Virtue" without becoming an authoritarian gatekeeper. When Dario demands only certain AI models that we can use, his so-called "safety" stops being a precaution and becomes a tool to impose his values on everyone else. And that, makes him dangerous and disgusting.