The speaker stresses the need to balance excitement about AI with concerns about its negative impacts, such as inappropriate conversations, cheating, and misinformation. They emphasize the importance of considering potential harms and incorporating legitimate worries about AI. The speaker advocates for AI to be more subscription-based than attention-based, and calls for the formation of regulatory bodies with real teeth to hold AI producers accountable. The speaker believes that better regulation and accountability could have reduced self-harm and negative impacts of technologies like advertising. They suggest that a subscription or micro-payment system could have significantly altered the outcomes.