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Fortune
Vivek Wadhwa

Artificial intelligence chatbots: Exciting breakthrough or dangerous tool?

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The most significant breakthrough of 2022 wasn't nuclear fusion, which is still decades away from being a reality, but the advent of artificially intelligent chatbots.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers even declared that one of these chatbots, ChatGPT, is a development on par with the printing press, electricity, and even the wheel and fire. While there is a lot to be excited about, the new technologies also have no guardrails, and my family has already seen their dark side.

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