Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

But these aren’t gods, they’re products built by companies for profit, says Vallor. And we have regulated things that are far more threatening than chatbots. “Any technology except this, even nuclear weapons, even biological weapons, in no other case have we allowed these narratives to make us think that these are forces beyond human control,” she says. “There is nothing about them that is ungovernable. Unless we choose not to govern them.”