You May Live to See Man-Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension

Despite my enthusiasm, I do not see AI as a panacea which will transform the world only for "the good". The present state of things may be more akin to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" section of Fantasia. As revolutionary a tool as these visualization applications may be for any number of end uses, they are small potatoes compared to the ways that AI will more broadly change our world -- in weapons, in metacognition (AI assistants), in medicine and biotechnology, in deepfake / disinformation vs detection arms races, and so on. Great and terrible things are likely to result, as Tesla famously said, "You May Live to See Man-Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension." Even in the relatively smaller arena of generative imagery, I see potential storm clouds gathering on the horizon.