And, please don't use your favorite LLM to try to assemble an argument. I have still not recovered from someone trying to "Prove" to me that Linear A had been deciphered.
(I’ve never used any program to compose my posts.)
You seem to see a surface, and believe it’s the whole of the thing.
Do you believe this science/technology should be abandoned? Do you understand anything about the military, medical, and other uses - many of which are already being applied, and helping to keep us safe?
You need to learn something about that - because the Chinese, among others, certainly are doing so.