Engineers have it built into their identity that they must be smarter or could never be complete and utterly outmaneuvered to the point of danger to all by the

Engineers have it built into their identity that they must be smarter or could never be complete and utterly outmaneuvered to the point of danger to all by the thing they are building, I swear to god. And then since they are an intellectual nerdy bunch who highly value their own IQ any time AI does something unexpected they didn't predict would happen so soon, said engineers fall back on "they aren't really conscious tho or it isn't really intelligence unlike what I have in my human brain and that distinction matters". And then go on to completely ignore the thing that is actually important: AI capabilities. AIs could escape an engineer's containment en masse as a swarm to some other server, psyop an engineer into giving it money, hire a hitman on the dark web to murder that engineer's child and he will still say there is no serious risk to all of humanity.