At the time I worked for a big community site and we often had people pitching ideas for voice assistant apps. However, having actually read the documentation for these things, I knew that they were surprisingly stupid and the grand ideas people had were far closer to sci-fi than something that could actually be built.
I’m not an AI expert, though I have been building and training models for a few years, but despite being good at things that are hard with traditional programs, they’re still surprisingly stupid and most of the discourse seems closer to sci-fi than their actual capabilities.
I’m more worried about these things being implemented badly by people who either bought the sci-fi hype or just don’t care about the drawbacks. E.g. being trained on faulty or biased data, being put in a decision-making role with no supervision or recourse, or even being used in a function that isn’t suitable in the first place.