Sorry for misunderstanding you. I agree that making Friendly AI probably is harder than making Unfriendly AI, so if Friendliness is necessary then our only hope is if anyone smart enough to successfully build an AI is also smart enough to see the importance of friendliness.
What I meant was that the disadvantage of this plan:
...was that the former problem is harder than the latter one.
A machine with safety features is usually somewhat harder to build than one without—it has more components and complexity.
I was not comparing with the difficulty of building a totalitarian government. I was continuing from the last sentence—with my ”...”.
Sorry for misunderstanding you. I agree that making Friendly AI probably is harder than making Unfriendly AI, so if Friendliness is necessary then our only hope is if anyone smart enough to successfully build an AI is also smart enough to see the importance of friendliness.