Everyone seems to have an opinion on artificial intelligence (AI) these days, especially since the release of the AI chatbot ChatGPT in November last year. Predictions as to where this technology might lead vary dramatically – depending on which expert you believe, AI will either add trillions of dollars to global economic growth or, in the worst-case scenario, cause human extinction.
But anticipating how new technologies will be used and change our lives is far from straightforward. For example, when mobile phones were invented in the 1970s, it was far from obvious that 50 years later we would spend more time using them to send text messages, watch videos and listen to music than make phone calls.
