I'd hope that a direct report to the top also has the strength of character to call for shutting it down, if it doesn't fly. Or, to respond appropriately to requests to commercialise it, with huge latent risks.

Rushing it out the door in a space race model is probably not a good idea. At this point, the value proposition is moot.

As a client and even paying customer of google I don't want this AI intruded into my product experiences without a big fat OFF switch. Not because of some terminator skynet fantasy: I want an opportunity to discriminate between reality as projected from pagerank and classic NLP algorithms, from the synthetic responses from a model.