AI is a like a chainsaw: used in the right hands, in the right context, and the right purpose it is a great tool that can accomplish much.
But in the wrong hands and in the wrong context, it's a disasterous and deadly weapon.
AI is excellent for mathematical algorithm stuff, like showing a bus driver the best routes, and if the bus is on demand, then it automatically populates the driver's route efficiently for the different drop off's and pick up's.
ChatGPT is wonderful at imitating style: for example, you can ask ChatGPT to create a birthday card poem written in the style of Jane Austen or Dr Seuss, and it will instantly imitate those styles for you. For a good therapeutic laugh, you can ask Chat GPT to write you a "hate letter" about your ex, and it will oblige (not to actually send, of course.)
But it cannot do reading comprehension, or analysis, or synthesis. It cannot make a legal or medical professional judgement and then dispense legal or medical advice. It can imitate the way doctors and lawyers speak, and it can give you a popular remedy for an ailment, but that is not real, trained, professional discernment. And AI can speak to you in a real sexy voice and tell you it loves you and tell you all the things you want to hear, but it is not capable of genuine love.
And unfortunately, as a society I think we are well past telling people that. AI has become normalized to do school work for kids, to dispense legal and medical advice, and drive on our roads. I think James Cameron's nailed it in 1984 with the "Terminator" series: we have created machines which give lethal medical and legal advice, and encourage and enable people to become mass shooters, and encourage people to die by suicide.
It's no wonder that TV shows, movies, and other media platforms are so fascinated with Amish culture, and other cultures that live without this kind of technology.