Mentioning it only briefly seems a bit Pollyanna to me. Couching this as mostly a good thing is overlooking the terrifying implications it would have in the "wrong" hands. And that overlooks the fundamental notion of there being "right" and "wrong" ways of thinking.
Absolutely. That was the motivation for my writing of my perspective of the study. It was trending on Twitter a couple days ago to the cheerful praise of mostly everyone.
I hoped to express the Orwellian concerns of use of such capability. I'm a bit dismayed at how this apparently isn't an obvious concern.