Murder has been around since humanity, same as war and all other concoctions of immoral force initiated, so AP is not really any sort of new news upon the world. Whether it come from Tyrant King, be distributed by "democracy" as "law", or goes down in a back alley, of the intertubes... makes little difference there. And like nuclear weapons, in time someone would have thought it up, and many will attempt to tinker with such gadgets until finding the magic combination that goes boom. Old news. What is interesting is that AP depends on a first proof of concept in order to have any future influence capability. And that each higher level of influence via its own 1st PoC adds efficacy surety to all levels of influence below it. Yet given some experience the world already has with diabolical machines, and AP being such a machine, proving in AP may be unlikely to ever reach murder level, particularly if lower levels are already providing effective influence in widespread fashion upon society... the threat of an already functional system may deter. ie: AP may be no more "scary" than already nukes, kings, governments, law, thugs, etc. And might end up being more moral. Assuming that one of the levels of influence may in fact end up being a murder, consider also that it may be quite unlikely that any sort of anarchist, libertarian, voluntaryist, etc would ever take part in its design and operation due to their superceding belief in the NAP. Alternatively, consider how millions of others in world would surely accept a single instance of proof as necessary to achieve otherwise peaceful influences thereafter. Thus this cohort may be far more likely to be the gadgeteers. In general, consider the various lines of rational or irrational thinking required to actually launch such a device. And that history certainly shows politicians love to develop and launch such colossal weapons against each other. Analysis of AP question seems quite related to nuclear M.A.D. question, game theory, etc.