If AI is outlawed then only outlaws will have AI.
https://vpc.org/press/states-with-strong-gun-laws-and-lower-...
I'll gladly live in a country with no AI at all. Give me Dune post-Butlerian jihad levels of AI outlawing and I'll move there. I strongly believe that myself and all the people living there will be much happier.
And the obvious whataboutism is obvious. Yes, you can find other sources for information on, say, developing bio weapons elsewhere. Does that mean you should have systems that aid you in collecting, synthesizing and displaying that information? That with the right interfaces and actuators can actually help you move towards that goal?
There's a line somewhere, that is very hard to draw, and yet should be drawn regardless.
The threshold to building any of these save nukes is extremely low, and nukes are only high because there are fewer use cases for radioactive material so it's simply less available.