Now we have rogue kids escaping their sandbox :)

This is what they reacted to: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

That's correct. As far as I know nodody builds any kind of science or technology on top of chess, but mathematics is at the base of most science and technology. It would be horrible if we prevented AI from solving mathematics problems, just because mathematicians want to solve them by themselves the "hard way".