>I'd like to think that the top minds working on AI have a higher purpose than to get the next generation hooked to a digital morphine drip.

That's the irony. The genius scientists are against AI used for defense, but somehow they're all-in for AI being used to getting people addicted to ads, dopamine, gambling, debt, porn, political manipulation, etc. basically everything that's guarantee to wreck society, but thank god they aren't making weapons I guess.