> I usually hold up Big Hero 6 as the canonical example of optimistic robo-futurism

Yeah this shows severe misunderstanding of how sociopaths up there are shaping the future, while masses flock for next dopamine kick to wherever the carrot goes.

And I dont mean the word sociopaths as a slur but rather a factual description of basically all people in power - sillicon valley (or redmont or whatever) moguls, politics, pentagon and so on.

I am not generally a negative person and have rather positive outlook on future overall, but such naivety... no clue where it comes from. Even EU with its open source initiative on one side is visibly a control freak aparatus when looking at other actions. And apart from few small havens like Switzerland EU is still behaving light years better than US where most of these inventions come from. Then there is China. No.

There are two groups of sociopaths here.

1 is the group you discuss, the ones that want to control the models to do what they want so they can control the future.

Group 2 is the ones that want models to be able to do anything, which is the group you seem to belong to. Of course in your desire to do anything yourself you find yourself unable to imagine the hellscape of a world that will be created when you release billions of agents that have little desire to fit in the rules of human society.