@bugnaw333, your prior post is an excellent contribution to the theme of this thread.
For the past 53 years, I have been concerned at the level of mis-information that is thrown about in the world. It is used at ALL levels of mankinds existence and is taught to each of us humans beginning couple years after birth. We teach kids about the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Halloween, etc. Innocently as this is done, it leads to several manners of our behaviors; either creatives among us or the followers among us.
Professor Hinton indirectly alludes to this as the LLMs contain evidence of this; namely truths and mis-informations. As such, we are our own worst enemy and because of our behavior in the lifestyle we have led, is the primary reason "why" some in society are afraid of AI; especially the rich!
AI is not a threat to the masses, per se; AI is a threat where the masses could/will benefit over the greed and gluttony of the Rich. Use of mis-information in the future will diminish, IMHO, as it continues. The ONLY present way to slow its progress is for the rich to restrict who has access to the ability that AI offers each human who takes advantage of it. Thus, only the rich will have access while the masses will be denied the enormous benefit AI 'could' bring in a non-chaotic way. The evidence of this is that each AI offering(s) are already designed around a capitalistic cost model. This means that those without money will NOT be able to use it the way those with money can and will be able to.
I have been paralleling what is called AI since 1985. I, like the Professor, am not scared by it. I understand where it came from, what it is currently, and where its going. Its too bad I am too old to contribute and to see it play out for very much longer, but, AI, in its current state is ONLY a step in the planet's evolution.
Every human on the planet would benefit iff the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the rest of the Americas are willing to change the GREED factor we have been hell-bent on for the last 7000 years. Without such, the only way out is a biological reset.
Hope (or as Grey shared about me, 'optimism') is that I am not the only one(s) who understands the achievements we, humans, can go on to. @Grey, though, may be right and there is no way for those humans populations with the power are ever going to want to see a different pathway forward as they are locked into their present behaviors.
HOPE is merely a vision! Action, meaningful ACTION, is what is going to be needed. If there is a way for mankind to change from its current greed model to one of wanting a future of total cooperation of the peoples of the world, without requiring an Atomic WAR, it must happen for life on the planet to continue movement forward.
The UN was the right idea for human cooperation after WWII, but, the greed factor does not allow it to move forward because the power brokers are engaged in an ideological war affecting everything from pathogens to intellectual-knowledge to technology to climate to resource-sharing to ... well you get it.
AI's development has merely sped the clock up for humans to determine the way forward...or backward.
AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"