When we examine our general anxiety about AI, we likely think of robots-gone-rouge, like the Terminator movie series. Today, with ChatGPT producing sentient-like responses, it's raising new concerns that AI is becoming an “unhinged nightmare.” Most people don’t want AI to become more intelligent than us. But it feels like we are approaching a tipping point where technology can become so powerful that it controls us. From a data scientist’s perspective, the key lies in ethics and getting people involved in careers that will help shape this new technology.