Is it actually possible to build AI safely given what we have seen?

Absolutely. Cars today are dramatically safer than cars from one hundred years ago. The aviation industry has a safety record that would have been unimaginable at Kitty Hawk. Safety improves when you put more brain power, more money, and more engineering discipline into solving it. I absolutely believe these labs can do it. It requires a lot more compute, a lot more technology, a lot more human horsepower dedicated specifically to safety. But it is possible. The industry is already making the transition from product capability to safe deployment. I believe that transition is real and I believe it will succeed.