Remember that in Nuremberg trials a prevailing opinion was that merely obeying illegal orders can be criminal. Similarly if the technology being built can be r

Remember that in Nuremberg trials a prevailing opinion was that merely obeying illegal orders can be criminal. Similarly if the technology being built can be reasonably used for great harms - and one building it is supposed to differentiate between 'knife' and 'Death Star'-level of potential threat - building the technology by itself may become the responsibility.