This is something I discussed with a friend recently. I talked about how the key to unlocked more potential for AI was to stop sandboxing it away from the world and let the AI start interacting with it. And the immediate pushback to that is that that would cause immediate chaos. Can you imagine AI-driven cars that out of nowhere decide to brake-check just to see what happens?

Kids are often an unpleasant annoyance in restaurants, and many people that don't like that annoyance try to convince restaurants and lawmakers to ban them from restaurants. The problem with those ideas is that by banning kids from restaurants, you are just going to create annoying adults in restaurants over time. Kids are annoying in restaurants, but they are also learning how to interact with the world. If you don't find a way to let them explore boundaries, they never learn, and they'll become obnoxious restaurant patrons even as fully grown adults.

Which kind of goes back to ethical AI. You can't unleash unbounded AI on the world, or else you'll cause chaos. And you can't sandbox AI, or it will never truly learn. What are you supposed to do then? I don't know, but the answer isn't firing the ethical AI department because you don't want them criticizing your ad empire ;)