[cypherpunks01]

Agreed. I am worried that AI bots will become an object of "worship" in some sense, culturally. Like you mention, having an increased reliance on it for facts, but also for creativity, companionship, career advice, psychotherapy, etc. will have many unknown effects but definitely give frightening amounts of power to whatever corporate entities are controlling the most popular AI bots.

We will go through the whole decentralization debate again, with people saying that open-source AI will be the most transparent and fair, but with centralized corporate systems winning all market share with the amount of resources they have available to train and maintain these systems.