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The main problem is that now people without software engineering background now have the ability to do some very complex things without having to have any knowledge about what they are doing and what risks they are taking.
Imagine just handing out forklifts or excavators to anyone who wants to drive one. No license needed just off you pop.
You’ll see a massive spike in dangerous accidents.
Yes, people are using AI irresponsively, but they often do so because they were handed an incredibly powerful tool with zero oversight or education in this matter.
And the thing is, AI can act pretty autonomously nowadays. It’s not rare that if you tell an AI that it should do one thing it stumbles into a chain of three other tools and ends up doing something else entirely. Again, something that can be counteracted with skill and knowledge, but we are talking about people with neither.
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I mostly agree with you, but AI cannot “act autonomously”. You prompt it, and it acts based off of that prompt.
Think of it like doing the laundry: I load my clothes in and “prompt” the washing machine to do my laundry.
When the washing machine switches from the rinse cycle to the spin cycle, it’s not acting autonomously, it’s continuing to execute my prompt.
Is AI capable of doing something you didn’t expect it to do? Yes. Does that mean it’s acting autonomously? No.
I would also argue that the “power” of LLMs is vastly overstated. A large part of that is for the exact reason you say tho, people with zero knowledge or skill are playing with fire; And when they get burned they blame the machinery, not the operator.
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