Comment by CTDOCodebases

I disagree. People are always taking risks regardless of the outcome and we don't know his motivations.

Assuming his motivations are positive this is the equivalent of asking a deluded person "Would you risk life in prison to be a trillionaire?"

Assuming his motivations are negative then destroying humanity might just be the goal and all these appeals for regulation are probably just tactics to temporarily defer responsibility onto government so he can continue the inevitable goal of human extinction in the same way pilots crash planes with hundreds of passengers on them or a cult leader convinces their flock to kill themselves.

Regardless I think the outcome is inevitable. AI is valuable as a weapon of war first and foremost so like nuclear weapons work will proceed forwards because extinction to the in-group is the same as total human extinction to those doing the work.