I like how AI safety expert Robert Miles put it. [0]

So much effort was spend on philosophizing whether a safe enough sandbox would exist. But that was obviously irrelevant as in hindsight it should have been obvious we were never going to use one.

[0] https://youtube.com/shorts/XnnjvIqf4fU?si=MxuPlR3hjxAgjx5_

Said another way: "Your engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they would."

Perfect, said it better than I did.