I don’t think it needs to be an actual AI to cause a “Chernobyl Moment” maybe almost literally.
We have tech bros and random clueless idiots trying to shoehorn these glorified chat bots into basically everything, and an administration that doesn’t seem interested in putting meaningful guardrails on the technology. What happens when it gets put in charge of something it really shouldn’t and starts to hallucinate?
If it somehow ends up in charge of critical safety systems in a nuclear plant? (Remember that some of these tech bros want to have their own plants to power their data centers)
Or air traffic control and causes multiple crashes? (Pretty sure I’ve already seen that idea being floated)
Maybe every cybertruck goes haywire stuck on self-driving mode and they cause tons of damages and deaths for a few hours until their batteries run out.
Maybe it gets used to route navigation in Google maps and it ends up causing massive gridlock in every major city around the world for a day or two
Perhaps it gets used for identifying vehicles on traffic cameras and automatically issuing citations, but ends up citing everyone on the highway for a week whether or not they actually did anything plus a bunch of cars that it hallucinated before someone catches on. Millions of tickets are issued and need to be sorted out, if anyone actually pays the fines refunds need to be issued, some people maybe get their license revoked and maybe even get arrested because of it and all of that needs to be set straight
If any of these kinds of things happen on a big enough scale, I think that could be a Chernobyl Moment for AI
If I was doing it as a way to acquire music to listen to, CDs, it’s easier and more convenient to rip them to a computer, they take up less storage space, and are more tolerant of a bit of neglect.
If I’m just looking to collect something for the sake of collecting something, probably vinyl.