If Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is any measure of how realistically we are taking artificial intelligence’s looming threats to humanity, the answer is: not realistically enough.

For the past few years, AI has hurtled towards each next step in optimization. ChatGPT made for a mainstream tool, but before that, people speculated — as in movies such as Her and iRobot — about AI sentience. We haven’t gotten there, and in actuality, we won’t. But concerns over the unknown tend to preoccupy society, especially over technology coming from self-professed utilitarians. Right now, these concerns center around job replacement and child harm.