This will probably get buried, but I've noticed the concerns about AI also apply to other technology: personal computers, Internet, social media, etc. These ha

This will probably get buried, but I've noticed the concerns about AI also apply to other technology: personal computers, Internet, social media, etc. These have undeniably changed society, in some ways for the worse: inequality, loneliness, sedentarism, mass disinformation. They have enabled mass destruction at never-before-seen scales, given massive power to individuals and small groups, and might have already set us up for mass casualties and apocalypse. What if the US or Chinese government turns its new military tech against civilians? What if giving children social media and Fortnite has doomed them to be society too inattentive and lazy to sustain the next generation? What if we experience a Carrington Event which destroys most technology? Hopefully, none of these things will happen, but we need to do more than hope: we need to seriously discuss, prepare and probably regulate these things. AI gives more publicity, but we have always needed to do more sophisticated debating. And to people think that AI is more significant than the personal computer, Internet, social media, etc.: I seriously doubt it. Why? We're comparing GPT to the invention of the computer and Internet, and it can create simple games, explain things you could've Google searched, create generic stories, and do other things 1+ billion people can. Which is actually really impressive, and may have consequences, like it mass spam and disinformation. But remember, we're comparing it to computers, which it runs on, and the Internet, which is the entire reason spam is a problem. And although GPT does things almost as good as a human, it has a long way to go before it does better than a human: remember, we've had machines that could play Chess better than humans for 25 years, "Jeopardy" almost as good for 10, and we still don't have machines that can do physical tasks with human agility or single-handedly do the work of professional artists and engineers.