> But this is the same way governments during COVID tested how much they can restrain freedom

So AI CEOs don't have our best interests at heart, but the people who got voted for, who supposedly does have our best interests at heart, is secretely engaging in plots to "test how much they can restrain freedom"?

I'm sorry, but this seems backwards. You're trusting the leaders of for-profit companies to do right regardless of their skewed incentives, and then the others are the ones to distrust. Sounds like you might want to move country is this is really how you feel.