Getting Real about Artificial Intelligence
When AI burst into the public consciousness late last year, with the launch of OpenAI’s Chat GPT, reactions ranged from unbridled excitement to existential dread. Some heralded it as the biggest innovation since the Gutenberg printing press, nearly 600 years ago, while others warned that AI would inevitably render our civilisation extinct. The truth probably lies somewhere between these extreme scenarios. That is, AI will prove to be extraordinarily useful, while posing some very real dangers to our world.