"I think today's explosion of LLMs etc will lead (eventually) to actual understanding." Or the opposite. Most people become too lazy to think and let the AI do

"I think today's explosion of LLMs etc will lead (eventually) to actual understanding." Or the opposite. Most people become too lazy to think and let the AI do it for them... and so the AIs can never overcome their baked in biases, so no real progress will happen. And about what we have got wrong, I think the problem is mostly how we (the average human) lives.