Dude I hate that so much, lol. Losing your post after you put your entire focus into it and then letting the thread go so you'll never recreate it in its most perfect form when initially written... literally the worst. 😂

That said, I get your perspective, but I think you are greatly overestimating the ability for the government and counterfeit class to do anything but develop and direct it toward exactly the risks we should legitimately be afraid of. I can't imagine seeing any organization more aligned to using it for total surveillance, top down manipulation of opinion and access to data, developing deep penetration malware and autonomous network infiltrators, and creating an AI system of robots for killing and imprisoning the population... than the government and the counterfeit class.

Legitimately can you argue that this isn't the case? I'd give this tool to a 1,000 average psychopaths if I get access to it myself, if I can just know that our political sphere doesn't have a monopoly on this tehcnology.

You seem to be failing to acknowledge an obvious truth, imo, each time you give your "let's not be reckless" stance. Which I 100% agree with from an individual perspective. But that truth you seem to not acknowledge is the incredible irresponsibility and recklessness of our government, and that in the name of "being careful" you are suggesting it ought to be controlled by the most narcissistic and reckless group of people we could appoint to the task.

I'm not disagreeing with the idea that this is a big deal, that its dangerous, and that we need to be careful. I'm disagreeing with your assumed premise that government control over our ability to build and use this technology could be in any way related to achieving those desirable outcomes.