The Download: a peek at AI's future

Plus: Trump says he'll sign an order blocking states from regulating AI. There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of generative AI. In one camp there are those who predict that over the next decade the impact of AI will exceed that of the Industrial Revolution--a 150-year period of economic and social upheaval so great that we still live in the world it wrought. At the other end of the scale we have team'Normal Technology': experts who push back not only on these sorts of predictions but on their foundational worldview. That's not how technology works, they argue. Advances at the cutting edge may come thick and fast, but change across the wider economy, and society as a whole, moves at human speed.