You talk as if AI is something a person can "make" in their garage. I don't buy this for a minute. You can argue the exact same thing about, say, nuclear weapons. But people making nukes in their garage is not a real problem because such a complex project with a lot of niche resources is not attainable in a garage. Curiosity doesn't mean anything if you need decades of mathematics, CS, statistics and neuroscience research as well as thousands of human hours of programming to achieve something.