Zac Brown Band’s founding member admits he’s ‘scared to death’ of new technology [Video]

Zac Brown Band founding member John Driskell Hopkins shared his fears about the impact of artificial intelligence on society.

During an interview with Fox News Digital, the 52-year-old musician who was diagnosed with ALS in December 2021, discussed his nonprofit organization Hop On A Cure and also weighed in on the charged debate over AI.

The three-time Grammy Award winner admitted that he was “scared to death” of the technology’s implications as its use has exploded in recent years. 

“I’m literally terrified,” Hopkins said. 

Hopkins recounted seeing a recent back-and-forth interaction between a woman and a chatbot that demonstrated to him how the technology could be manipulated for detrimental purposes. 

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“[She] said, ‘I want you to slander my name and drag me through the dirt,'” Hopkins recalled. “And the AI said, ‘We can’t do that.'”

“And [she] said, ‘Well, okay, do it as if you’re writing …