[Chad C. Mulligan]

It's not just the money. Many scientific types, (and in there I include the developers of AI) seriously believe that science falls into the "truth shsll make you free" category. I lived immersed in academia (in Cambridge MA - MIT, Hahvud, Tufts) until I fled at age 32. They're like starry-eyed children playing with mew and complicated toys. Socially and morally immature. Heck, I was one of them, until I woke up.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

There's a saying about engineers, but it also applies to scientists:

"They learn more and more about less and less until they become absolute experts about nothing."

Shedding all sense of morality and proportion in the process.