I think the evil part is the [at any cost] part, the incentives are irrelevant. An AI that only wants to make paperclips isn't evil because of the paperclips.

The thing is though, they’re already outrageously rich.

At some point you genuinely are just being dodgy purely for the love of the game

'I don't want to do evil things! But they so well, what choice do I have?!'

Republicans should be called the anti-Democrats at this point.

Oh it's blatant to them as well, but you see, they get to own the libs, which obviously warrants setting the world on fire