Sharpening AI’s Blurry Boundaries

Like most people, I watch the current developments around artificial intelligence (AI) with some confusion. On one hand, the AI proponents (mostly the large companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Nvidia with technologies to sell – see 84 AI Companies to Know) forward a long list of likely benefits from adoption. From finance (see How Is AI Influencing Interest Rates? Investment, Productivity, Prices & More) to business (see AI & The Looming Competition For Margin) to productivity (see AI & Firm Strategies: A Pathway To Enhanced Productivity), AI is being used practically everywhere.

And on the other hand, recent coverage raises . . .