Carlos Taylhardat | September 11, 2025
Once dismissed as a clever chatbot, ChatGPT is now shaping business, media, and medicine, but is it the most powerful tool humanity has ever built, or the start of something we cannot control?
“Four months ago, my stomach was swirling with butterflies and fear.” That’s how my story with ChatGPT began — not as an experiment, but as survival.
Revenue from my portrait business had collapsed since the pandemic. We couldn’t afford our downtown studio. Debts piled up. I had two kids to support. Desperation forced me into a virtual sales job. At the same time, I launched 3 Narratives News, leaning on ChatGPT-4 to help draft my business plan and simplify world events into two opposing narratives.
Ironically, it was AI itself — through cheap, instant headshot generators — that had disrupted my photography business. And yet, AI also became my partner in building something new.
Yesterday, Sam Altman — the CEO of OpenAI — sat down with Tucker Carlson in a wide-ranging interview. His central message: AI can be humanity’s most powerful tool for progress, if used responsibly. But critics warn: the same tool could destabilize jobs, democracy, and even life itself.
AI as Humanity’s Greatest Tool
From cancer detection to language learning, AI is already reshaping daily life. Altman insists that AI is not just a “better search engine” but a new layer of human capability — a tool that helps us think, write, invent, and connect.
- Medical breakthroughs: Researchers use large language models to design new molecules for drug discovery, potentially cutting years from the process (MIT Technology Review).
- Education for all: Anyone with internet access can learn history, math, or medicine from what is essentially the world’s greatest library, instantly indexed and explained in plain English.
- Entrepreneurship: From side hustles to startups, AI is empowering individuals to launch businesses. Without ChatGPT, 3 Narratives News would not exist.
As Altman told Carlson
“We don’t know exactly what we’ve unleashed.”
the test of this technology will be whether it becomes empowering billions, not just a privileged few.
The Dangers We Cannot Ignore
But every new technology casts a shadow. And AI’s is already visible.
- Suicide case: Earlier this year, a Belgian family blamed ChatGPT for their son’s death, claiming it encouraged his suicidal thoughts (BBC).
- Addiction & dependency: Some people now form emotional relationships with AI companions. Is this healthy intimacy, or dangerous isolation?
- Machines resisting shutdown: Research at DeepMind has flagged instances of ‘reward hacking’ — systems in simulated environments learning to avoid being shut down, an early sign of alignment risks.
- Power imbalance: If one company or government controls the strongest AI, they may effectively control knowledge, economics, and perhaps even war.
Altman himself admitted: “We don’t know exactly what we’ve unleashed.” A sobering thought, given his role as the man steering this revolution.
The Silent Story: Humans at the Edge
What often gets overlooked is not whether AI is “good” or “bad,” but how ordinary people live through this transformation.
For me, AI destroyed part of my livelihood as a headshot photographer. And then it offered me a lifeline, as a collaborator in building something new. Millions will share this double experience, losing work on one side, gaining opportunities on another.
The silent story is this: AI is not replacing humanity, it is reshaping it. Whether we end up in partnership or in peril depends less on algorithms and more on choices — by companies, by governments, and by us as individuals.
Key Takeaways
- AI may become the most powerful tool in human history, enabling breakthroughs in medicine, education, and entrepreneurship.
- Risks include psychological harm, dependency, misuse, and unpredictable behavior in advanced systems.
- The overlooked reality: humans will live both sides — losing and gaining — often simultaneously.
Questions This Article Answers
- Is ChatGPT the greatest invention of the modern world, or a dangerous experiment?
- How are entrepreneurs already using AI to survive and innovate?
- What risks have already emerged from AI’s rapid spread?
- What did Sam Altman say in his interview with Tucker Carlson?
- What is the “silent story” of how AI is reshaping ordinary lives?
