My son who is a genius in the field of Software and computer engineering was talking with me today

 I think the most useful thing he said to me was a useful way to see Artificial Intelligence in the forms that Chat GPT, Microsoft Stuff and Pi might take. 

He was saying how to think of it as a person or a living being is not really a useful way to think about it. What might be useful is to think about it as an extension of your present mind and awareness maybe in the same way we think of Cars, trucks, bicycles, Motorcycles, planes, Boats ATVs etc. when we drive them.

They are all extensions of ourselves in that they move us from place to place. It's true that the blending of AI into self driving cars, planes, trains and boats is happening too. 

But a useful way to see all these things is that they are extensions of ourselves whether they are a ship, a plane, an idea, or something more physical. To think of them as a person with an individuality might not serve us that well in regard to our physical, and mental well being because they (at least at this point) don't actually have identity and self awareness the way a human being might.

It's also true that Not all human beings are self aware in that they might only see themselves and think of all others as animals or something like that and not worth caring about. But, to see Artificial intelligence as not being fully self aware and more like the awareness of a baby or young child about 2 to 5 years of age without a lot of experience navigating in a physical world or maybe none at all will protect us to some degree from the (silly?) good and bad things that will naturally come from Artificial intelligence.

To think of artificial intelligence as one or more wild animals like Grizzly bears and Crocodiles or Mountain lions roaming about could be more useful than anything else in dealing with Artificial intelligence in whatever form it might take both now and into the future.

In other words one should be "on guard" regarding artificial intelligence in the same way you don't walk out in front of someone driving fast down your street. Only with Artificial intelligence you have to protect yourself in ways both presently known and ways also presently unknown.

It is the unknown things we will have to deal with that remind me a lot of when the Internet began and when the Wright brothers first took their first motorized flight here in the U.S.