This is probably net good, but without any organizational changes I don’t think it means much at all. Sam can and does just make a promise, and then “change his mind” as soon as it’s convenient. There’s an angle where this comment pushes OpenAI in a particular direction (and OpenAI has more inertia than Sam alone) and another angle where it makes him look bad when he goes back on this, but I don’t think you can or should read much intent into his words at all other than “I think the next interaction I have will go well if I say that I’m going to cooperate with democracies”.
This is probably net good, but without any organizational changes I don’t think it means much at all. Sam can and does just make a promise, and then “change his mind” as soon as it’s convenient. There’s an angle where this comment pushes OpenAI in a particular direction (and OpenAI has more inertia than Sam alone) and another angle where it makes him look bad when he goes back on this, but I don’t think you can or should read much intent into his words at all other than “I think the next interaction I have will go well if I say that I’m going to cooperate with democracies”.