How much trust do you have in AI, and what concerns do you have with it?

My main concerns have always been that it will be used for very bad things, like creating very realistic looking fake images and videos meant to blackmail/otherwise create controversy for people (we already have this happening with deepfake porn), making very realistic sounding scam phone calls pretending to be a trusted person (someone has told me about a case of this already happening, but thankfully the person was not scammed, as they called the trusted person's real number to verify and found the call they received was a scam), etc. I definitely think technology can become too advanced for society's own good.

There are also already apps for AI friends/romantic partners, which IMO doesn't seem healthy at all. We already have enough other things trying to "replace" in-person interaction with real people, with technology and convenience, and the collective state of society's mental health is showing how we're paying the price for that. Everything being done from home (working, shopping, having restaurant food delivered rather than going out to eat, etc.), a lack of "third places" (malls going away, other options being too expensive to hang out at regularly, etc.), social media dominating social interaction, and now people turning to computerized "personalities" for companionship is all leading to an unhealthily isolated society, and people wonder why there are so many issues with anxiety and depression, and especially crippling social anxiety. I personally don't think the way society is headed with this stuff is in any way healthy at all, and I find it very concerning how many people talk about how much they hate leaving the house and avoid it at all costs, not to mention the amount of people who are so addicted to their phones and social media that they can't put them down when they're out in public and it isn't uncommon to see tables of families at dinner all on their phones, not saying a word to each other the entire time. I've known people over the years in real life who self-isolated (leaving the house as little as possible, interacting with as few people as possible), and this lifestyle seems to cause a massive downward spiral in people's mental health, and creates a situation that is very hard to get out of. It's like society is turning people into zombies and everyone's somehow completely okay with it.

Sorry for getting slightly off topic and ranting, but this is something I've found concerning for awhile and it seems like most are either oblivious to it or just don't care, and it's a scary thing to me. I can only imagine AI will exacerbate the issue, though that isn't to say that some good things can't come from it as well.