Uh? In what universe are openai and anthropic not shadow groups?
Oh, how nice of them, such charitable souls...
But if you're an angry hacker in full on culture war witch hunter mode, then of course nobody can say something that's even slightly different than full-on hate without you interpreting that as aligning with the evil witch.
How could modern AI have helped those groups you mention in their endeavour? Really fucking easy and effectively, and you don't need a lot of imagination to think of how. From surveillance and interrogation to pinpoint determination of ethnicity and much more. Not to mention translation between human languages.
They literally targeted people for their past opinions, how they looked, etc. which you can now determine and process at break neck speed, you can even remove humans from the loop and have the machine determine who's an undesirable or not.
How is this a serious question lol?
Releasing artificial intelligence for the use of all of humanity is better than it being controlled by one or more shadow groups. That's what the Americans did, and the Chinese followed in.
Had AI been invented in the 20th century, it would have been kept secret and used only by state actors to facilitate genocides at mass scales. But we live in different times.