Privately manufactured bombs are common enough to be a problem - and there is a very plausible threat of life imprisonment ( or possibly execution ) for anyone who engages in such behaviour. That an augmented brain with the inclination to doing something analogous would be effectively punishable is open to doubt - they may well find ways of either evading the law or of raising the cost of any attempted punishment to a prohibitive level.
I'd say it's more useful to think of power in terms of things you can do with a reasonable chance of getting away with it rather than just things you can do. Looking at the former class of things - there are many things that people do that are harmful to others that they do nevertheless because they can get away with it easily: littering, lying, petty theft, deliberately encouraging pathological interpersonal relationship dynamics, going on the internet and getting into an argument and trying to bully the other guy into feeling stupid... ( no hint intended to be dropped here, just for clarity's sake ).
Many, in my estimation probably most, human beings do in fact have at least some consequence-free power over others and do choose to abuse that minute level of power.
The more intelligence augmentation is equitably spread the more likely that there will be less consequence free power over others. Intelligence augmentation would allow you to collect more data and be able to communicate with more people about the actions you see other people taking.
There are worlds where IA is a lot easier than standalone AI, I think that is what elon is optimizing for. He has publicly stated he wants to spread it around when it is created (probably why he is investing in OpenAI as well).
This world feels more probable to me as well, currently. It conflicts somewhat with the need for secrecy in singleton AI scenarios.