You're allowed to authorize your technology to be used to kill people, but if you do so, you shouldn't be surprised when those people also try to kill you. America and Americans somehow keep forgetting that actions have consequences and the government can't always override the consequences.

The government asked Sam Altman "may we use this to kill people?" and Sam Altman said "yes if you pay us lots of money". What's hard to understand?

That's what's happening when people want to blame specific persons for world issues instead of the collective.

> Are painkillers "authorized" to get people to overdose?

Are you saying the Sacklers did nothing wrong?

I wouldn't want my country to use the best technology when conducting warfare because my country only conducts offensive warfare resulting in millions of innocent deaths in the Middle East, having a massive military budget that dwarfs most others combined whilst hardly ever being directly threatened.

Can we at least drop the sports games terminology ("defense", "offense") and acknowledge we're talking about mass killing of people here?

These words originated with war and were adopted by sports.