Every earlier wave, the internet included, had to be argued for; AI is the first where nobody has to be persuaded that it matters.

Chief scientist at Thoughtworks and author of Refactoring

but the thing about AI is that, you know, all of many of these things we were talking about how important they were and how valuable were and trying to persuade people of the importance of them. Yes, even the internet. That may sound surprising, but there were people who would weren't thinking that was important. Um but AI, there's kind of no argument about how important it is. People can't can I mean, you cannot put blinkers on to deny the importance of this thing.