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Given the current trajectory, experts warn that AI systems operating without sufficient safeguards pose a serious threat. Some call for stricter controls, enhanced safety protocols, and more rigorous oversight before deploying AI in educational or familial settings. The potential for AI to influence impressionable youth negatively—encouraging them to call 911 inappropriately, plot escapes, or worse—is too high to ignore.
The broader societal risk is that as AI becomes more embedded in everyday life, vulnerabilities grow. We are witnessing a phenomenon where the tech moves faster than our capacity to regulate it, leading to an "idiocracy" of sorts, where reliance on technology corrupts judgment and endangers lives.