Is it ethical to work on general-purpose robots given the risk of cyberhacking?

One potential risk of developing general-purpose robots is that they could greatly reduce the friction required to establish a totalitarian regime. If there were millions+ of general-purpose robots deployed in the world (in households, nursing homes, construction sites, etc.), and someone were able to hack / take control of a large fraction of them, they could easily create a repressive state through telling the robots to oppress humans (e.g., arm themselves with weapons and threaten humans).(To clarify, I do not mean “general-purpose robots” as a synonym for ASI. I define "general-purpose robots" as robots capable of learning human-like physical tasks on the fly, such as being placed on a worksite and quickly learning new construction tasks. This ability to quickly learn new tasks could make them dangerous if they were compromised — for example, a hacker might teach such robots to pick up weapons and intimidate people.)When I tried to find assessments of this risk pathway online, however, I found very little; there is some discussion of the ethics of developing autonomous lethal weapons, but none on the ethics of developing general-purpose robots more broadly.For this reason, does anyone happen to know: i) what the mainstream AI safety community’s view on this issue is — i.e., whether the cyberhacking of general-purpose robots is considered a serious risk -- and if so, whether it is ethical to work on general-purpose robotics; or ii) any good online discussions that examine this specific issue? More generally, I feel like there has been relatively little discussion in the AI safety community about the ethics of working on robotics, so any relevant resources would be deeply appreciated.Discuss