"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
I'm convinced this is going to be the summary of the 2020 decade...
This one of the places to manufacture the consent for that to take place, because we are commenting within an organization that has given the money to ensure it that what could be is done. Most people clapped and made money, who cares what happens next, making money is the only good that matters.
If we're in a simulation, maybe it's a simulation about the dangers of AI.