Society has been at this crossroads before. A new technology arrives, overwhelms many, and embeds itself so thoroughly into daily life that the question of whether it should have been adopted so freely becomes unanswerable, because it's already too late. Kerry Bodine, founder of Bodine & Co., believes artificial intelligence is the latest and most consequential iteration of that pattern.
"We got addicted to social media, and then we got addicted to our phones. We have a chance and a choice not to, but we didn't take it because we weren't paying attention at the moment," Bodine says.
