AI will save us or be the end of us. That's not fact or even an opinion; it's a TL;DR reduction of the very real tension between proponents of AI and those who fear it.
Interestingly, sometimes that tension resides in a single person. It is quite fair and reasonable to use ChatGPT for basic deep dive data searches and for quick answers on how to talk to an uncooperative child, but to also fear that perhaps that same AI knows too much about you and might, in its own agentic way, start to act on your behalf and do things you never intended. At scale, we worry about AI controlling weapons or even launching a catastrophic war.
