the issue isn't the capabilities of AI.

It's how it will be used maliciously and change our society irrevocably.

Not from saving developers hours of work.

But from making truth even more subjective and at the whims of the powerful.

And from devaluing and stagnating art even further.

And from sabotaging the critical thinking capabilities of our youths.

All technology comes with tradeoffs. The internet you describe also doesn't exist - it's been overtaken with ads and tracking and it's basically impossible to use without some sort of adblocking. But we can all agree it was worth it for humanity.

So will AI. Probably.

But that's what people are always concerned with - the downstream consequences like nothing we've ever encountered before.

I was having a discussion with someone, they said, “let me ask ChatGPT. If it says it’s true, it must be true.”

I also worked with a fellow manager who used to tell the engineers they were wrong because ChatGPT said so. That one was actually entertaining to watch. The coming humbling of that manager was so satisfying.

People put a lot of stake in what it says, not realizing it isn’t always right.