The righthand side is not "A future without superintelligent AI" it's "A future where we wait until we provably have it right before letting it out."
Those kinds of ad hoc solutions will never work in real life, because even if someone buys it, all it will cause is a "haha, you got me" and a reformulation of the problem. It still won't actually get someone to pull the trigger or think that pulling the trigger is the right thing to do.