Your reasoning would apply just as well to computers. We have all kinds of things where the expectation is, or was, that you don't ask the computer to do things you don't want, and the times when that expectation has been eroded in favor of "the computer isn't fit for the general public" have been a mistake.
That’s not comparable. Computers are for more nebulous and people are far more consistently able to navigate them than they can AI.
Reminds me of my favorite quote - "Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do".