Even if he is right, this isn't something that can be stopped. Even if you manage to stop all the innocent hobbyists, you'll never stamp out the malicious ones.

Even if he is right, this isn't something that can be stopped. Even if you manage to stop all the innocent hobbyists, you'll never stamp out the malicious ones. Seems to me that, assuming bad shit will happen, the best thing to do is get as far up the curve as possible as fast as possible. It's like, in the Sarah Connor chronicles, she's trying to hold back the singularity by firebombing the houses of AI researchers when the only real answer is to set off the singularity yourself so at least you can hope to sculpt it.