It is frustrating how certain people like talking about a nebulous future "AI threat" instead of talking about all the ways how that technology is being used to harm people right now

"AI could"
"AI will"
"Bad actors might use AI to"
"[In our fantasy scenario created by drawing line going up fast on a graph], AI is the biggest threat to humanity next to climate change and nuclear bombs" (an actual statement that I've seen in the media )

No
Stop that
The so-called "AI" has been there for a few years now, and there is plenty of bad things that it's being used for, so if you want to talk about the dangers of that stuff, talk about these

I can't find the correct phrasing, but otherwise it's just... obscuring?
Like, pretending that the problem is somewhen in the distant future, and ignoring what's happening right now?

Things that "AI" is being used for:
- Deflecting responsibility for evil deeds that they wanted to do anyway ("computer told us that these are the targets for the drone strike", "computer told us to deny your insurance claims", etc.)
- Flooding everything with low-quality slop text, spam, etc.
- Firing the workers and replacing their work with "AI" output, and then potentially having to hire someone again to clean up the resulting mess

Things that "AI" is not being used for:
- Taking over the world and bringing about the apocalypse
- Making new bioweapons or whatever