Should public be barred from accessing extremely powerful models for fear of bad actors? Is open source reckless?

One of the core questions in AI safety is who can and cannot access powerful AI systems and to what extent these can be accessible. If we restrict only to few verified users, then we risk a stratified society where the gap between people that can use those models vs people that don’t gets bigger. Moreover, it provides a huge gap in information accessibility, which directly translate to gap in power and leverage, a perfect breeding ground for power consolidation. If we go to the other side of the spectrum, where we open source the extremely powerful models to the whole public, then bad actors will inevitably use them to their desires at the harm of society, such as spreading misinformation, generating illegal porns, conducting scams etc. I personally believe we should draw a line somewhere in the middle, and try to walk on that tight rope as best as we can. One way to do so is following the current anthropic model, where they first release those systems to verified and crucial industries to strengthen their ability ahead of potential future adversaries before releasing them to public with guardrails. However, guardrails are far from perfect and can be over restrictive in a lot of times, and since models at this level cannot be open sourced under this approach, it introduces data privacy risks and you also cannot directly fine tune that model. Another way is not to restrict AI itself but regulate other parts of the event chain leading to the crime, such as more robust 3rd party detections on fraudulent transactions and AI generated contents, and more guardrails for bio labs. One downsides towards this is that regulations will now become more complicated and as a result our other aspects of life might be worse off. We want to have more personal control towards powerful models, but like firearms, it is a double-edged sword that can also be used against us. Do you think current models are powerful enough to worth this discussion? Do you think society is ready for this kind of accessibility for extremely powerful models at least at the same level with firearms?