I don’t think there’s any stopping the “fewer ethical considerations”, banned or not. For each angle of AI that some people want to prevent, there are others who specifically want it.

Though there is one angle that does affect all of that. The more AI stuff happening in the open, the faster the underground stuff will come along because they can learn from the open stuff. Driving it underground will slow it down, but then you can still have it pop up when it’s ready with less capability to counter it with another AI-based solution.