The only thing that stands out as a viable point is the energy consumption, everything else is word salad. As long as the average person isn’t being deprived of their energy needs, I see no problem. It’s the early stages, efficiency can come later in all sort of ways.
What interests me is that all this hype paves the way for intelligence that can interact with the physical world — advanced robots.
And as far as ChatGPT is concerned, its usefulness is a mystery only to contrarians and counter-culture types.
The problem is that something like this, on such a large scale, has never been done before.
Stopping anyone from doing anything that gives them power, wealth, comfort is an extremely difficult task, let alone asking that of the ultra-rich. Even more so because it runs contrary the very nature of a capitalist economy.
Once renewable energy becomes nearly as good, all that will be needed is a combination of laws, regulations, activism to nudge the collective in the right decision.