I am intentionally not specific. Any or all of the bold, doubt-free, speculative claims of what AI can do, or will do in the future.

I'm simply reversing the perspective of your comment, as the author of the piece does for AI hype in general. It's no less bold to claim AI can/will do "everything" than to claim there are things it can't do.

I'm a veteran of almost four decades of technology industry hype, often seen from an inside perspective. The hype around AI is not different. The consequences are another matter, for better and worse. We won't know what most are until we are surprised by them. By that I don't mean what people explicitly claim or think AI can or can't do. I mean all the "unintended" but nonetheless real consequences across many contexts for individuals and societies.