Machine Learning vs AI..
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I'm with others in that AI will inevitably be abused by some entity that will turn into major oversight...how much, I'm not sure. There are so many nuances to new technology that no one organization (or even a hundred of them) can consider every aspect.
A non-vague example would be Google's app UI design teams. In the early days (even now if we're honest with ourselves) they would design apps through the lense of making them as convenient as possible. What they never considered was that convenience triggering addictions. There are folks that have literally developed an 'addicted' response to their email with physical responses like anxiety when barred from being able to check it constantly. Just as an example.
Along those lines reads "you spent so long figuring out if you could do it, you never stopped to think should you do it." I don't mean that about AI in general, but how it will be employed in the real world. I think, like many others, that AI can have a real, positive impact on society depending on how it's used.
One other thing that's crossed my mind is how much even having a "glorified search engine" would impact the day-to-day. Think about something like working in the legal system. I'll have to dig it up, but Randall Monroe of XKCD did the math and it would take an individual something like 50 years of constant reading to cover every possible law that applies to them (e.g. case law, local ordinances, state law, federal law, etc.). Now we have something like ChatGPT that you can provide a situation to and have it search through all that documentation within a few seconds and provide a list of reference material for an attorney/judge to peruse. How would that effect the judicial system as I'm sure laws long forgotten or some obscure case law would inevitably show up.
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Of course laws and regulations are going to be put through this wringer. As well they should. The AI will identify many thousands of inconsistencies and conflicts. Some people will make a lot of money exploiting the gaps. Hopefully the result will be better laws and rules. Go GPT!
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I've used it (gpt3.5) and it works well for me. I've got it to generate code to access the todoist API. It did not know the API but I gave the documented curl command and it wrote the code. Then I asked it to change it to be async.
I've got it to do a lot of APIs for me.
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My senior high school paper was titled âA comparative analysis of Charles Dickensâ views on America and Mark Twainâs views on Englandâ
I sure could have used chatGPT for that instead of poring over books in the library (and going to the card catalog to locate where the book(s) were)
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Today's high school student is probably being fed your paper as an answer to copy and paste... 
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