Hope and Fear: the New Industrial Revolution of Generative AI is here

Three years ago I wrote an essay on the future of AI — I warned that huge changes were coming and that nobody was ready. Now, those changes (and a lot more) are here. And despite all of the hype, I believe we are still drastically underestimating the impact of generative AI; Nothing less than a second industrial revolution is at hand, with all of the promise and disruption that entails.

Introduction

In 2020, I wrote an essay titled “Deepfakes Mean the End of Shared Reality, and…