Horizon: Zero Dawn was so compelling (to me) because of the outright horrifying plausibility of a gassed up tech CEO, convinced that software safeties were infallible, unleashes the consequences for their hubris upon the whole of humanity.

Ted Faro was a horrible human being blinded by delusions of grandeur, but he wasn’t “evil” - he was even convinced he was saving humanity by ending the threat of both war and climate change.

I don’t see GPT itself as representing a new Faro Plague, but I do see a lot of wannabe Ted Faros making the decisions at the top.

If LLMs come even close to achieving their short-term potential, we’re unleashing a bigger destabilizing force on the world than the smartphone/social media combo - and the world of 202x seems blatantly incapable of absorbing that level of disruption.