The thought had never previously struck us… We were naive in thinking about the potential misuse of our trade… A non-human autonomous creator of a deadly chemical weapon is entirely feasible.
When we started cloning sheep, still teeming with genetic defects, a wealthy man in the middle east commissioned the cloning of himself for an heir.
Any technology we develop will inevitably be used to do the unthinkable, and it will continue to be used unethically until we have pragmatic cause not to.
This isn’t to say we shouldn’t develop such technologies – if we dont, in our hypercompetitive society, someone else will. We just need to develop counters and remedies when someone is tempted.