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You know, this is ugly, but I'm going to say it anyway; I think that much of the American AI boom slots directly into unmet social/organizational needs. No mentors, unstable institutions, no real training, no third places, absence of trustworthy authorities, inability to cope with uncertainty, ..

People are under-supplied with actual human scaffolding, and the market noticed. So it becomes a kind of prosthetic for broken social infrastructure. It's probably a better solvent than glue, unfortunately.

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It is certainly contributing to dissolving the bonds of trust in our society, and I have to wonder if it would have been released in its current state if those bonds had been stronger to begin with. Google durably replacing itself overnight & now turning out 10% lies and 50% mis-citations??