Excellent news. I was seriously worried they would cave when I saw the earlier news they'd dropped their core safety pledge [0].
It is entirely reasonable to not provide tools to break the law by doing mass surveillance on civilian citizens and to insist the tool not be used automatically to kill a human without a human in the loop. Those are unreasonable demands by an unreasonable regime.
I'm not sure it's even ethics, it might just also be about misaligned LLMs giving worse outputs and they don't want to make their models worse. Plus their models tend to be the least sycophantic and push back on inane stuff, giving in to those instead would also likely make the models worse.
