There is an open debate about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Sceptics of AI question how much AI is a "threat" to our privacy, way of life and how much it can ultimately deliver. "It's healthy to approach with a certain sense of humility. People have been talking about the rise of artificial intelligence since Stanford Professor John McCarthy coined the term in 1956," Sam Blatteis, CEO of The MENA Catalysts, a public policy consulting firm for government innovation arms and high tech multinationals, told TechRadar Middle East. However, Blatteis said that, "there are those who believe that the disruptive potential of AI will have nothing less than the social impact of the industrial revolution, Henry Ford's assembly line, the invention of flight, and the Internet."