If it's worth the risk or not is not even a factor. If we KNEW developing this technology would doom humanity a company or country(or in the future, any amateur with some knowhow in programming) could still go through with it since the economical incentive is so incredibly immense. Perhaps this is a reasonable explanation for the fermi paradox

For now we are the creators, so if it's friendly or not will depend entirely on how we program and interact with it. Hopefully it can be done safely within a globally regulated framework but right now that's just not happening



Also that JRE podcast with Elon is so damn good lmao. Recommend everyone to watch the entire thing