> AI will be under high scrutiny and is much less likely to be allowed to create technologies like this at least initially. But if it already exists and is wide

> AI will be under high scrutiny and is much less likely to be allowed to create technologies like this at least initially. But if it already exists and is widely deployed? That's like the apes saying "Homo sapiens are under high scrutiny and we will not allow them to develop stick-sharpening technology, at least initially". They have no way of fathoming the thousand other weapons and traps we can easily develop. And they wouldn't even recognize half of them as being weapons or traps, even as they watch us building them.