2023: the debut of ‘AI as we’ll know it’?

This report explores the trends, pressures and use cases behind the latest limelight exposure of AI: is 2023 to artificial intelligence what the late 2000s were for smartphones and the early 1990s were for the internet? We cover how AI is set to reform work across multiple industries and is challenging assumptions about what can and can’t be the domain of human economic activity; we look closely at how the technology is being factored into two fields already rocked by events this decade – healthcare/life sciences and military innovation. And the note closes with summaries of the regulatory environments for AI being developed in the US, China and EU: if ‘leadership’ in AI can’t be shared, informing the role it takes in most societies may be a different goal worth pursuing.