We tested the latest AI – and here's why you should be worried

It will disappoint fans of The Terminator, but the AI revolution is coming not in the form of killer robots or dystopian autocracies, but chat bots. We were told it would mean the apocalypse. So far it looks a lot like customer service, albeit much better than usual. The latest revolution in public-facing artificial intelligence is ChatGPT, a piece of software designed by OpenAI, a California-based research company. GPT is short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.