The same could be said for hard drugs. It can be simultaneously true that a large part of the public objects to a thing while the market generates profits from

The same could be said for hard drugs. It can be simultaneously true that a large part of the public objects to a thing while the market generates profits from that very thing. Of course the answer is for governments to step in as, as you point out, the AI-related companies are behaving as rational actors given their incentive structure.