Are these chatbots way overhyped? Yes.

Are people talking about this trend as if the sentient AI robot revolution is already here and humans are about to go extinct? Unfortunately, and of course, yes.

Are people using these tools for bad or just banal purposes? Almost certainly.

But…

But that doesn’t mean the tools themselves are bad. We can make chatbots, LLMs, and AI in general better, safer, fairer, more prosocial, and more sustainable.

We can and we must. Because if we don’t work on this now, don’t build in the safeguards and figure out protections and remedies, we know harm will occur.