Yes. Let the AI do its worst today and we might still be able to stop it and will learn a valuable lesson.

Yeah it's a twisted sort of logic but I do agree that it would be much worse to have an AI breakaway event after we've replaced all our militaries with autonomous kill-bots. And look how the advent of AI has triggered a race to develop autonomous weaponry.

That said, a misaligned AI could absolutely do catastrophic, civilization-crippling damage with today's Internet alone.