Another problem will be academic dishonesty.

Remember how people used to buy term papers decades ago? I actually know a not-so-bright guy (now quite old) who graduated college in the early '60s thanks to buying term papers.

In more modern times, you can go online and hire services to write papers for you.

But imagine if you have a chatbot at your disposal to write unlimited essays and papers for you, on virtually any subject? This might be very hard for professors and teaching assistants to detect, and will result in rampant cheating on any written assignment that isn't done directly in class.



It also could be used to write personal correspondences. While it could feel like something convenient, imagine the horror in learning that an AI wrote your ex-girlfriend's breakup e-mail to you, or that your friend had an AI write an excuse as to why he has to cancel his plans on Saturday. Or what if you write a trusted friend and ask them for advice, and they simply turn on their AI to write a response?

Remember the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, later adapted into the 1980s movie "Roxane"? We could have a more modern version of that tale, with people using AI chatbots to converse on dating apps, saying all the right things, when in reality the other side is blissfully unaware.

AI trolling could also become a thing. Imagine I'm dealing with an annoying forum troll, and instead of fighting with him myself, I commission 10 AI trolls to show up here and constantly hassle him every time he posts? Imagine if someone were to use such bots to hassle people Twitter on a massive scale, making it appear the world is against them? The possibilities are endless.

Then there's the matter of scamming. Right now, foreign scammers are highly limited by their poor grasp of the English language and western culture. To all but the most dim, it's obvious they are phony. But what if AIs can be used by scammers to much more effectively get their message across, and to allay any concerns of the victims? AI scamming will probably be a thing in the future. We already have bots that scam people via e-mail spam, but they are very crude and cannot hold a real conversation. What if one can?

I'm not sure the world is ready for this.