I believe there are two definitions of evil:

1. Anything that decreases agency in yourself or others
2. Anything that makes people commodities, vehicles for your own desires

In any market there exists a potential for people to commodify each other. What is more valuable than control of people? This is the purpose of the law: restricting human commodification. Examples of commodification include the obvious, slavery or forced labor, and the less obvious, fast food and addictive technology. Commodification is always achieved either by force or by ignorance/manipulation.

In profit incentive markets, people will treat other humans as commodities unless the law prohibits it. (Slavery being the most extreme unrestricted market.) The problem is that laws are always created in a reactionary manner, only after exploitation has been detected.

The free market will always be smarter than the government, meaning that new means of commodification will be ever-present, and new regulations prohibiting this will be perpetually necessary.

The world ends when a new way of commodifying human beings either develops too quickly for regulation to follow or when it is too insidious for the necessity of regulation to be realized. If it is true that technology/AI develops at an exponential pace the final moment is when technology outpaces law by the critical margin.

“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. . . . Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.”

In the dictatorship, people are being commodified, and no one is intelligent enough or has the necessary resources, to build something that is world-ending (i.e nuclear weapons or AI). This is only a possibility in a sophisticated economy with highly educated people.

There are already AIs, many in big tech, that are manipulating the masses. We do not need to worry about AI overcoming our strengths, we need to worry about it overcoming our weaknesses: that is Game Over.

Technology in a free market becomes continuously better. The world moves closer and closer to technological utopia every day. Simultaneously we are discovering more sophisticated ways to commodify humans. The touch and go.