Fighter plane engineers are fully aware of how their inventions will be used and generally agree with the mission.
"Because I make killing machines. And they were both damn fine killing machines."
"Because I make killing machines. And they were both damn fine killing machines."
But that's kinda beside the point. I'm more concerned that you missed the primary logical error that I committed in my analogy: the AI experts in question aren't doing the rationalizations but the scaremongering.