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But in the short term, the promise and perils of generative AI may be more modest than the headlines make them seem. While the technology behind generative AI has been brewing for years in research labs, start-ups and companies have only recently begun releasing them to the public. But Vanderbilt University used ChatGPT to write a collegewide email offering generic condolences in response to a shooting at Michigan State, enraging students. ChatGPT and other AI language tools can also write computer code, devise games, and distill insights from data sets. Other types of AI tools, such as those used to discover new pharmaceuticals, have their own dark sides.