I've seen lots of people with a financial interest in AI that is adversely impacted by it being democratized spread fear of that alongside advocacy of regulating AI in a way which serves their financial interests.
> We’ve had inquisitions historically, I would very much support a global AI inquisition.
Aside from the (current, immediate, and already being realized in a large number of areas) problem from AI deepening existing social biases and crystallizes power imbalances, this is the biggest threat from AI, and the most likely to cause the destruction of human society the soonest – the people endorsing a global campaign of unrestricted violency in the name of eliminating the supposed threat of misaligned AGI causing a future catastrophy by repressing AI technology.
If this kind of attitude gets powerful enough to actually do anything, it will cause a world war.