It's a critical problem like when a drug dealers supply kills someone and they get a bump in business because they're selling "the real deal"

Irrelevant to your point, but drug users dying is more often the result of a dealer cutting their supply with something dangerous than it is the result of purity.

Right, and an LLM being able to "escape confinement" is more likely to be poor confinement or a PR stunt than a "too powerful" llm. Same situation

Second this. Lots of fentanyl overdose are caused by accident, not because the buyers are buying them. It is extremely dangerous