> nuclear-weapon-level-dangerous chatbots

I feel this framing in general says more about our attitudes to nuclear weapons than it does about chatbots. The 'Peace Dividend' era which is rapidly drawing to a close has made people careless when they talk about the magnitude of effects a nuclear war would have.

AI can be misused, but it can't be misused to the point an enormously depopulated humanity is forced back into subsistence agriculture to survive, spending centuries if not millennia to get back to where we are now.