Big worries about AI

There are several recent posts that exhibit such worries.

For one, 

https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/tech/moltbook-is-a-new-social-media-platform-exclusively-for-ai

My view on what Matt Schildt did:

This is the WORST IDEA EVER.

The analogy that comes to my mind is little boys playing with fire.

What could go wrong? 

This brings to mind the German folk tale 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice 

whose setting by Goethe contains the lines 

"Die ich rief, die Geister, 

Werd' ich nun nicht los" - 

"The spirits that I summoned 

I now cannot rid myself of again" .

This story was made known to generations of American children by Walt Disney's animated cartoon Fantasia: 

https://youtu.be/B4M-54cEduo

https://youtu.be/m-W8vUXRfxU

https://youtu.be/GFiWEjCedzY

I gather that Matt Schildt either never saw that cartoon, or if he did has forgotten it.

Unfortunately in this case, to cite another childhood story, it may not be possible to put the genie back in the bottle.

Perhaps when Schildt was born in 1990 such stories, once part of all kids' education, were no longer fashionable.

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Another post concerning AI:

https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

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Note also the GTG 1002 incident.