Basically, in my eyes the US government has dropped the ball with respect to AI. They for some reason are not competing with corporations for AI researchers, which means that instead, researchers are being pulled into tech companies with a profit motive. Ground-breaking AI research papers come from people working at either Google AI Research, DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and there may be a couple others I'm forgetting. There are also researchers at universities mixed in with the authors on those papers often, but even so. For example: the 2017 transformer architecture (the T in GPT) for example was published by then-Google employees (and one University of Toronto guy who was working at Google).

The result is AI for profit. What better way to misalign our AI than using it for money? This accelerates AI development but creates larger existential risk.