Our son is deeply technical and works in national cyber security. He says that, like all of the other technology we have embraced for its benign usefulness, AI, too, is here to stay and will embed itself in the culture, just like the tracking devices (Siri, Alexa, FitBit, GPS, etc.) we think nothing of using. The problem with all of these “useful” technologies is their potential for serious abuse in the hands of bad actors, and we seem to have a growing supply of those and no effective way to deal with them. The issue with AI, specifically, is that it DOES have the ability to change humanity as we know it as I noted in my comment about the Singularity, Q-Day, and the accelerating effect of quantum computing upon AI.
But that horse has left the barn. Nothing you do with ChatGPT is going to change this future. It’s already here. Worry about what governments are doing with this beast not how well or poorly AI writes essays, does math, or designs rings. Those are (convenient) distractions.