I wonder how it would be possible to stop people from publishing and spreading research that will doom some subsegment of humanity/culture. If it turns out that

I wonder how it would be possible to stop people from publishing and spreading research that will doom some subsegment of humanity/culture. If it turns out that proliferating something like DALL-E 5 causes serious irreversible effects to human culture, what would the researchers conclude was the correct thing to do at this exact point in time? Stop publishing AI research? How would we get all 8 billion people on Earth to agree? It's the reason why the rapid amount of progress in this field scares me at times. It feels like gradually being crushed under a wall of the inevitable march towards progress. It could be the case that stopping ourselves before it's too late isn't possible. Sometimes I get the feeling that the laws of nature will eventually destroy or severely impact any lifeform that gains too much of an understanding about the world. For example, in some other universe it might be possible to survive X more decades if the laws of physics weakened the effects of nuclear war just enough for civilization to recover in a relatively short period of time, but we're stuck with what we have, and that doesn't necessarily map to the long-term survival of a highly intelligent lifeform. It would be a shame if unbounded curiosity would be humanity's undoing. That curiosity is also a part of me, and my family, and my neighbors down the street, and those in the situation room.