“Meta is controlled purely by Zuckerberg and xAI follows the whims of Musk.”
Isn’t this actually a comparatively good situation? As far as I know, neither of these people wants to die, so if it comes to an existential crunch, they might make decisions that avoid dying. Compare that with amorphous control by corporate beaurocracy, in which no invididual human can manage to shift the decision...
I agree that individual control increases policy variance, which was sort of my point. Whether that’s good or not seems to me to depend on what the default course of events is. If you think things are headed in a good direction, then low variance is good. But if the default course is likely to be disastrous, high variance at least provides a chance.
I don’t understand your point about asymmetry. Doesn’t that tend to make the default course bad?