Some possible outs and opportunities:
Some semi-strong AI is deployed in a dangerous and very damaging Headline way a few before AGI is developed, allowing for a tiny sliver of a chance to rein the research sector with whatever the best ideas are for doing so.
A new Luddite movement (it could be us?) slows down research for an extra 10 years through sheer shouting, agitation, and political dealing, allowing for possibilities and ideas that might be helpful.
Well-defined safety guidelines which are enforced on research and actually stops the creation of anything not provably safe (which we somehow figure out).
Some possible outs and opportunities: Some semi-strong AI is deployed in a dangerous and very damaging Headline way a few before AGI is developed, allowing for a tiny sliver of a chance to rein the research sector with whatever the best ideas are for doing so.
A new Luddite movement (it could be us?) slows down research for an extra 10 years through sheer shouting, agitation, and political dealing, allowing for possibilities and ideas that might be helpful.
Well-defined safety guidelines which are enforced on research and actually stops the creation of anything not provably safe (which we somehow figure out).