It's just the angle they're using to solidify their market position and establish moats around their technology, if not an actual monopoly. All this fearmongering over "safety"? It's to get the governments the world over to "regulate" this stuff, thereby raising barriers to entry. Such a thing would essentially make them the only AI company that's allowed to do business.
This won't prevent their major rivals - cloud companies like Google with deep pockets - from competing with them. It only hurts the little startups and SMEs.
