However, even given the current state of “AI”, I think there are countless dangers and risks.
The ability to fabricate audio and video that’s indistinguishable from the real thing can absolutely wreck havoc on society.
Even just the transition of spam and phishing from poorly worded blasts with grammatical errors to very eloquent and specific messages will exponentially increase the effectiveness of attacks.
LLM generated content which is a mix of fact and fantasy will soon far outweigh all the written and spoken content created by humans in all of history. That’s going to put humans in a place we’ve never been.
Current “AI” is a tool that can allow a layman to very quickly build all sorts of weapons to be used to meet their ends.
It’s scary because “AI” is a very powerful tool that individuals and states will weaponize and turn against their enemies.
It will be nice to finally have a good spellchecker though.