It's already made some difference to how the companies are behaving - Deepmind doing quite a lot of work on protein folding and now protein drug interactions, OpenAI under Altman tying to do the startup max the money raised and user count thing.
In practice, people are people and there are probably variance in both camps, but it's easy to see why one would by default trust a business person less
your trust scale needs more dynamic range- the sackler fiasco genuinely should have bumped everyone’s trust in doctors a lot, but probably should not have bumped them below supplement peddling minecraft youtubers.
Not that I think Demis is or is not trustworthy, but I think it’s a bit foolish to believe it would be allowed to matter.