Students would lay off ChatGPT if they knew where AI might be leading humanity

‘The field of AI is littered with nevers,” writes Richard Susskind, in How to Think About AI. “Again and again, commentators and AI specialists have excluded topics from ethical discourse on the grounds that machines will never be able to do x, y, or z.” Then, rapidly, inevitably, AI achieves what it was claimed it couldn’t do and we are left struggling to catch up.