Everything is "too dangerous". GPT2 is going to invent a time machine and break crypto and genetically engineer super rabies.

You are hyperbolically judging a post-hoc cherry-picked subset of a great spectrum of concern, with hindsight experience nobody had at the time.

Safely navigating the future isn't an accuracy contest. Risk mitigation has to account for the distribution of costs for different signs of error, where novelty, uncertainty, and any potential for compounding effects all greatly multiply the need for hedging.