Guns aren't AI, and I've yet to find a good explanation as to why AI is dangerous outside of science fiction where it becomes self-aware and takes over the military.
Meanwhile, they're distracting the public away from the real issues, which are the same as always: filling the web with more garbage, getting people to buy stuff, decreasing attention spans and critical thinking.
The threat of job loss is also real, though we should admit that many of the writing jobs eliminated by LLMs are part of the same attention economy.