Undoubtedly the scariest area of the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) is the use of them to make better ML and AI. If anything produced a sentient self-perpetuating AI menace akin to SkyNet, it would likely come from AI producing new AI. At the moment the real threat is to the survival of many job categories, and this has been the case since the Industrial Revolution where jobs like cobblers and horse carriage makers were largely obliterated, often in the span of a decade. ChatGPT and other LLMs have massively reduced the need for professionals like graphic design artists – the current LLMs are easily capable of producing and refining graphics like logos using the same set of specifications that would traditionally be given to humans.