In the case of AI, it gets even worse when you factor in MCPs - which, to continue your analogy, is like letting random people walk into the factory and adjust the machine parameters at will.

But people won't care until a major correction happens. My guess is that we'll see a string of AI-enabled script kiddies piecing together massive hacks that leak embarrassing or incriminating information (think Celebgate-scale incidents). The attack surface is just so massive - there's never been a better time to be a hacker.