[salawat]

#1) The AGI wary are absolutely right to be putting every brake humanly imaginable to progress just out of understanding that they can't stop all instances of enthusiastic people going for it.

#2) the same tendency for said people to go full speed ahead with gratification of their own interests in mind rather than what society is prepared to safely handle. *This is exactly the same phenomena you decry as what afflicted social media. Take note that the central problem exists in the AI space as well.

#3) Yeah. No one wants to be told not to do something.