I'm an old lady and a luddite. I leave my phone unattended as often as possible- it's meant to be useful to me, not something tied to me so everyone can always access me at any time.
I'm wary of this exploding technology too... I dislike huge corperations tracking, evesdropping and harvesting our data so they can target us for sales. It's like we're livestock being milked - and willingly spending a lot of money to buy the very products they use to harvest our data from us, even! We carry them around and they listen to our conversations to target ads, track everything we search, algorthyms decide what news sources and opinions to show you, based on the data they collected. Rather than bring people closer, we're also encouraged to have a dozen "social media" accounts to scroll through. The more the bots learn about your views, likes and opinions, the more targeted and hugbox like your feed becomes.
I recently turned 40, and I'm very glad that I was in the last generation to grow up without constant access to the internet. There are wonderful things about the internet, not knocking that. But there was a simplicity and innocence then. I feel bad for the generations since who have been in front of screens their whole lives.
I'm sure the AI can do incredible things. Tech stuff like that is so far above my intelligence level, I don't truly understand most of it, and don't really want to either. The ethics (or lack thereof) around all of this trouble me.
We're already at a point where people don't feel a need to truly learn and remember things, because "I can just google it." Now we're going to have the software developed by companies that view us as a crop to be harvested, do the thinking for us as well??
I hate how everything those companies dangle in front of us to distract us and make money from us, is now called 'content' that we "consume". Those words send shivers down my spine.