Remember that Shearwater is a business, and good business needs to grow its market share.
If Shearwater could integrate an AI on its computer - especially if it could read other's transmitters - they would take over a large share of the Galileo market. Not all of it, because Galileo folk tend to be data addicts. The Shearwater desktop would need to be expanded to capture the rest of it.
The AI "on / off" could simply be a switch in the settings. The current fans would see nothing different. The AI screen would been just another choice of view. Shearwater's current "rec" setting and display is masterful in that it entices recreational divers who have the wherewithal to purchase their computers. Once bitten, forever addicted!
I find the opinion that a business shouldn't do something because someone, somewhere may misuse its products totally over the top controlling.
I disagree. But only recently.
Last year I took a job that was by far the leader in its industry. BUT, our prices were sky high on the commodity that we dealt in. Now, our business was pretty much busy from start to finish, morning til night. At some points, we were so busy, our staff couldn't come even close to keeping up with the demand. It was one day like this that I realized that we were operating at maximum capacity for our building, staff, location, etc. Imagine if we were also the cheapest. There's NO WAY we could keep up with the traffic.
Shearwater is the leader in the products it sells. And their customer service is unmatched in any industry anywhere. Sure, maybe they are only catering to 10% of the diving population, but if they are operating from the perfect position because of their perfect market share, then reaching to millions of divers (the recreational market) instead of tens of thousands of divers, could be a giant mistake.
At any rate, I think they got this pretty well figured out. I don't see them screwing up now what they've been doing right all this time without AI.