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> Your analogy is the same as early Intel engineers completely unaware that those chips would bring on the ramifications of social media

Exactly! As they should be. (for both Intel engineers developing chips, and physicists developing nuclear research)

There were a billion more potential dangers from those technologies that never materialized, and never will.

I'm glad we didn't stop them in their track because a poll of 10 leaders in the field thought they were too dangerous and progress should stop. (note that no one is against regulating dangerous uses of AI, e.g. autonomous weapons, chemical warfare; the problem is regulating AI research and development in the first place)