Protected by society by having better support for caregivers and effective old age care in general? Most definitely.

Protected by society by sanitizing every last venue into a safe space that can be independently navigated by the vulnerable? Definitely not.

Having said that, the real problem here are the corpos mashing this newfound LLM technology into everyone's faces and calling it "AI" as if it's some coherent intelligence. Then they write themselves out of the picture and leave the individuals they've pitted against one another to fight it out.