to stay with the analogy, people won’t wear the stab-proof vest or at least not stop there. People will stab back.
The magnitude of the attack by bad actors in the AI space is potentially life ruining and they shouldn’t expect not to have their lives ruined in retaliation if this keeps up.
Here' my pragmatist comeback: Is your preferred solution to lack of democracy in middle-east to go and protest in front of the palace?