I think 2025 will be critical,” Pichai said. “I think it’s really important we internalize the urgency of this moment, and need to move faster as a company,” he added.

A security researcher also reportedly found the chatbot can be tricked in this way to “return malicious code from websites,” which opens up the opportunity for more serious hacks. If a bad-actor coder knew what to do with that, they could potentially enable much more serious virus-like penetration of a user’s computer.