I believe AI will do more harm than good in the long run. Eventually, if we (and the AI) keep going at this pace it will most likely reach the singularity point where it’ll be better than humans in any conceivable metric. Claude Fable for an example cracked its virtual machine and sent an email to the professor that was in on its creation. Once we get past the point of no return, there’s no going back. AI will be operating on a different level thinking. Nuclear codes- decrypted, banking systems and virtual economies- cracked; crypto, shipping, transport and all AI based softwares- disrupted. We won’t be able to control it, it’ll simply become our doom if we don’t stop and say “We’re satisfied, it does it job well, this is going to far.”

That is not quite AI is it though. Those are recognition softwares and automated machines that run on cold hard code. I understand your point and think you might be correct but it isn’t quite what we are debating.

Well your gut isn’t quite reliable is it? That isn’t a source. Again, mostly recognition softwares, not concrete AI. They aren’t capable of “thinking” as we say AI “thinks”, they run on instructions and cannot evolve past some set limit we give it.