Here are some reasons we should be cautious about normalizing AI + ChatGPT before establishing regulations:
It’s unreliable. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11729512/#:~:text=This%20study%20indicates%20that%20ChatGPT,back%20to%20an%20existing%20publication. AND https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07930-
It’s a plagiarism machine. https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=OjKaOsE7GWKfm15p&t=868
Environmental racism, increasing consumer's energy bill.
Terrorism: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/terrorist-groups-artificial-intelligence
Training these models is deeply unethical.
Exacerbates mental health issues.
Bad for User’s Brains: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
Stealing Good Jobs.
Biased.
Privacy Violation.
Deepfakes + Harmful Misinformation: perpetuates extremism
Affects Societal Trust + Relationships.
Worst Corporations Backing AI
Moral Questions of Control + Freedom
As historian Yuval Noah Harari has written, to “never summon a power you cannot control”
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