For me, this is the body horror money quote from that Scientific American article:

"participants who saw the AI autocomplete prompts reported attitudes that were more in line with the AI’s position—including people who didn’t use the AI’s suggested text at all"

So maybe you can't use it "responsibly", or "safely". You can't even ignore it and choose not to use it once you've seen it.

If you can see it, the basilisk has already won.

There is also not much to figure out for the rest of us. The technology is purpose-designed to remove people from the equation, much like a handgun is purpose-designed to remove people from existence. Any "figuring out" about either tech will only result in variations on their purpose

What we need to do is strip back the tech, go back to the drawing board, and figure out how to reinvent it practically from scratch to be more human. /fin

There is no rebuilding, no constructive potential for "AI" without political reform, both in the US and in Europe. The motivation behind the tech still remains: powerful people want to take things away from society

The people who funded and drove today's "AI" will have the resources to figure out how to make the tech affordable after the financial bubble pops. They're the ones who will have the resources to figure things out about LLMs, not us.

They were built for this goal—fewer humans, less accountability—and will always be problematic no matter who is in charge and always always be a risk as long as the "shitty people" have power

In the modern history the "shitty human beings" have always retained power and influence after bubbles pop, from Reagan onwards. The bubble builds up wealth and power, they keep it after it pops, and use their influence to get in on the ground floor on the next one.