Thanks for your response - I'm skeptical whether the software developer ethos you described will hold true as the power of AI grows and expands. Power in any context regardless of cultural norms can corrupt absolutely.

What you described in banking is something I'm very familiar with. For almost a decade I enforced that "consecutive leave" policy among many others not only for bankers and traders I covered from a compliance perspective, but also software developers who built the algorithmic trading strategies. It's definitely a useful policy to detect potential misconduct, but I'm unclear how that applies to the AI industry at large. Should we enforce something similar for certain AI companies? Do they need the equivalent of banking licenses?