>I mean, he wasn't wrong! But nonetheless I think most of us communicating on an online forum would probably prefer not to go back to a world without writing. :)

What social value is an AI chatbot giving to us here, though?

>You could say similar things about the internet (getting your ass to the library taught the importance of learning)

Yes, and as we speak countries are determining how to handle the advent of social media as this centralized means of propaganda, abuse vector, and general way to disconnect local communities. It clearly has a different magnitude of impact than etching on a stone tablet. The UK made a particularly controversial decision recently.

I see AI more in that camp than in the one of pencil erasers.