We need to reclaim our agency over tech in 2024

We need to reclaim our agency over tech in 2024
Sam Altman is poised to accelerate development of ChatGPT-5 and its successors. (Image: AP)
Peter Griffin
In a year that’s been defined by the mainstreaming of artificial intelligence and the breakneck pace of developments in the field, less time has been devoted to the question of whether we need this technology in our lives.The futurists and consulting firms now putting out their predictions for tech trends in 2024 have generative AI front and centre as a technology that will become pervasive in virtually every organisation.After surveying the AI landscape and experimenting with intelligent chatbots, AI copilots and large language models (L...

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