At worst it’ll be a similar impact to social media and big data.

Try asking the big players what they think of heavily limiting and regulating THOSE fields.

They went all “oh, yeah, we’re totally seeing the robot apocalypse happening right here” the moment open source alternatives started to pop up because at that point regulatory barriers would lock those out while they remain safely grandfathered in. The official releases were straight up claiming only they knew how to do this without making Skynet, it was absurd.

Which, to be clear, doesn’t mean regulation isn’t needed. On all of the above. Just that the threat is not apocalyptic and keeping the tech in the hands of these few big corpos is absolutely not a fix.