Is it ethical to work on general-purpose robots given the risk of cyberhacking?

Published on June 30, 2026 6:30 PM GMTOne potential risk of developing general-purpose robots is that they could greatly reduce the friction required to establish a totalitarian regime. If there were millions+ of general-purpose robots deployed in the world (in households, nursing homes, construction sites, etc.), and someone were able to hack / take control of a large fraction of them, they could easily create a repressive state through telling the robots to oppress humans (e.g., arm themselves...