There are already consequences.

We (collectively) were unprepared for a machine that presents itself in human forms. We were the frogs that boiled ourselves. We built a world of images and words on a screen. And then we built a machine that can (increasingly) mirror that world; it does so in a way which most of us are incapable of disambiguating.

It feels like there is indeed a ghost in the machine.

And there is, but that ghost is us. And that ghost is fading surprisingly quickly.