Comment by tobr

If it has access to the internet (it more or less has) and its able to convincingly engage in conversation sounding like anyone in text or voice or video (it more or less can), it’s as able to contact people and convince them to do things as a human would be. From what I see of ChatGPT I would be surprised if the tech could do all that successfully enough at this stage, but in principle I don’t see why it wouldn’t be able to do quite a lot of scary things if for some reason it decided that was the right thing to do.