"we would be seeing private companies or governments use it internally "
What world are you living in, where this isn't happening? Every private company that can use it is using it, Microsoft themselves must be using Copilot. Governments are lining up to train their own LLMs.
Commercial and consumer use are not mutually exclusive, in any case.
Also "Humanity is excellent at oppressing others, and I have no doubt we'd be equally good at oppressing a true AI as well."
If you actually read history a bit carefully, you'd understand this frequently works out badly for the oppressors. The Romans hired, and abused their germanic mercenaries, thinking with their centuries of political experience, they could let the Germanics do all the hard fighting while getting paid little.
The contemporary Jin dynasty in China thought the same way, just hire barbarian mercenaries to do all the hard work in their civil wars. Those illiterate barbarians, who up that point, have never achieved much in China, surely wouldn't be a threat.
The empire may no longer around but the UK and the Commonwealth still are. They are thriving. France is still around, and despite the protests, is still a wealthy nation. Belgium is still going strong. The US is the richest country in the world. Turkey is still kicking. Despite Nanjing, Japan's economy is to die for.
The former empires are shadows of their former selves and had to undergo significant reforms. Nobody knows or cares who the king of Belgium is anymore.
That was implied, I think, though achieving impossible feats is a bit of a stretch in expectations.
Private enterprise is certainly leveraging LLMs. OpenAI APIs on Azure are very hot right now, limited to companies that have existing contracts with Azure.
What world are you living in, where this isn't happening? Every private company that can use it is using it, Microsoft themselves must be using Copilot. Governments are lining up to train their own LLMs.
Commercial and consumer use are not mutually exclusive, in any case.
Also "Humanity is excellent at oppressing others, and I have no doubt we'd be equally good at oppressing a true AI as well."
If you actually read history a bit carefully, you'd understand this frequently works out badly for the oppressors. The Romans hired, and abused their germanic mercenaries, thinking with their centuries of political experience, they could let the Germanics do all the hard fighting while getting paid little.
The contemporary Jin dynasty in China thought the same way, just hire barbarian mercenaries to do all the hard work in their civil wars. Those illiterate barbarians, who up that point, have never achieved much in China, surely wouldn't be a threat.
It ended very badly for both of those polities.