The point is, AI is not able to act capably or autonomously. If someone tells it to "act autonomously" it'll either sit like a lump or flail until the power runs out.

All it takes for somebody to nuke Atlanta is an atom bomb and an airplane and somebody willing to fly the plane.

I’m being facetious but there ARE ways to decide/act as a society and as subgroups within society that we want to disallow and punish and select out qualities of AIs that we think are unethical.