I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Many of them probably do contemplate it. Aware that since AI is a sea change, there's difficulty predicting the full

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Many of them probably do contemplate it. Aware that since AI is a sea change, there's difficulty predicting the full range of first-order consequences, much less all the resulting second-order ones. But... genie, bottle; prisoner's dilemma. If they object to what they're building, or how it's implemented, too strenuously, they will be out of a job. Then not only do they have more immediate concerns about sustaining themselves, they have no weight in how things play out.