Tesla is losing money hand over fist SpaceX is losing money (and would be hemorrhaging money if not for US government spending) The Boring company is bankrupt Neuralink is losing money
Misalignment-by-default has been understood for decades by those who actually thought about it.
S. Omohundro, 2008: "Abstract. One might imagine that AI systems with harmless goals will be harmless. This paper instead shows that intelligent systems will need to be carefully designed to prevent them from behaving in harmful ways. We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design. We call them drives because they are tendencies which will be present unless explicitly counteracted."
https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_d...
E. Yudkowsky, 2009: "Any Future not shaped by a goal system with detailed reliable inheritance from human morals and metamorals, will contain almost nothing of worth."
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GNnHHmm8EzePmKzPk/value-is-f...