I think AI technology has already been used for good things and that will only improve, as the technology improves the potential for bad things increases exponentially.
That is the paradox, the technology is not going to be stopped we would be crazy as a country not to invest and advance the technology if for no other reason than to understand it.
You could create 1000 great things with AI but one really bad thing will override all of the good work, the article I posted about the 40,000 new biological weapons is a perfect example, AI could be used to cure cancer, but ONE biological weapon used to kill half the world’s population would negate all the positive from curing cancer.
Technology is morally neutral.
The people who use it are not and therein lies the problem.