I'm tempted to think you're right, but we're probably going to have to live through a 5 years long boom / bust of illogical, unthinking children getting in and building very stupid things with very powerful weapons before another cryptocurrency-style crash. On the whole it is not going to serve as a technology to even teach young coders to think for themselves, let alone the devastating effects it will have on society and human relationships in all countries.

Really, I mean, force kids to learn BASIC or Pascal or whatever... but these AI systems cannot ever be understood by people who grow up taking computation for granted (and only learning how to tinker with them on the surface). If they aren't understood, they will be treated like a magic box for answers, and worshipped as a deity or an oracle.

I don't think it is too much to say that ChatGPT is the Golden Calf that represented the type of lazy thinking or psychological projection into imagined, embodied "gods" which the monotheistic religions starting with Judaism found to be morally atrocious. And why? Because giving up one's rational beliefs or even one's irrational monotheistic belief in a God to the fantasms and stories created of idols and their stewards was a form of slavery from which you could not rescue yourself or your children.

Guarding the Word presages guarding its corruption by machine, several thousand years in advance. And Islam, Christianity and Judaism are all a warning against allowing the machinery - even seemingly perfect technologies - to become a god.

[edit] and FWIW I am an atheist, but that only makes me more concerned, as I see a new and more terrifying irrationality taking the place of the old. The new religion of CHATGPT will be much more terrifying because the entity it worships will be PRESENT AND ALIVE...