It's what the vast majority of software engineers have been doing for decades in practice, and i guess pretending they weren't?

They only seem to care now because it affects them.

It's evil to make something so powerful it meaningfully improves the GDP/wealth level of the entire planet?

Or is it just evil that you aren't the one who gets to control it?

Why should the greatest creation of all time have to be given away? As a counter-example, what if they used it to do nothing but good deeds everywhere? And they controlled it to keep it out of the hands of Abdul Al-Hassan the hijadi?