The speaker considers concealing the development of superintelligence and fully automated, broadly superhuman R&D from the president strategically risky because, if he found out anyway, he might react angrily and impose a severe crackdown, potentially nationalizing the companies.

“strategically though that would be quite risky for them because if they keep the president in the dark about the fact that they're building super intelligence and that they've actually completely automated their R&D and it's getting like superhuman across the board and then if the president finds out anyway somehow perhaps because of whistleblower he might be very upset at them and he might crack down really hard and just actually execute on all the threats and like you know nationalize them and blah blah blah blah blah blah they kind of want him on their side and to get him on their side they have to make sure he's not surprised by”