This is just a fear of technology. We will discover the same technology without AI, eventually.
This is not AI waking up and deciding to merc us, which is what normies think we're talking about.
No, previously a single person could effect only a single person's worth of terror. Now, a single person can effect thousands or hundreds of thousands of 'persons' effort towards terror.
This isn't really a fear of technology, it's a fear of one person being able to harness an entire country of geniuses towards some bad end.
Terrorists exist. Covid happened.