Ukraine produces 25% of europes food and 70% of the world industrial neon, which is needed for chip production. A famine in europe and giving control over chip production for the next 5 years to russia and china is a lot worse than losing our middle east stronghold.
Cameras are for insurance
They do have the rights because this falls under fair use, It doesn't matter if a picture is copyrighted as long as the outcome is transformative.
John Von Neumann died in 1956 and I believe he came up with the original "von neumann probe" that he called the "universal constructor"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor
Its 100% a thing
The data harvesting fronts that have been released to consumers are not the problem. Its AI that generates better jet parts, or ai that can better detect submarines, or AI that can efficiently parse through the massive amounts of data they collect on everyone.
Its a futurama quote
Why would the company want all this controversy over a tech demo?