If we see the crisis coming and we don't know how to avoid it from a technical standpoint, we have no option but to try to ensure that the technology isn't created in the first place. For example, if a number of companies in downtown Montreal or Toronto were creating and developing a nuclear technology that places everyone around them at risk, we wouldn't be wondering how to balance safety and other aspects. We would be sending in the police to stop them.
In this situation, if companies are creating a technology that will place everyone at risk, and they themselves admit that they don't know how to control the systems that will be created, the government must take responsibility for protecting the public and for putting these developments on hold, at least until we know how these systems can be set up safely.
The government's main role is to protect the public. If technologists are doing something too dangerous, the government's role is to stop them. To do this, we need every country in the world to participate. If someone, somewhere in the world, is creating these systems, we're in great danger.