New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- There was a time when we took stock of technological growth based on Moore's Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. It suggested that computing power doubled roughly every two years. It gave us a rhythm, a sense of scale and expectation.

In present times, if you were to wait to check on developments every two years, you would find a world you don't recognise because of the sheer speed at which AI advances now outpaces the attempt of humans to understand it. AI can be game-changing. Yet even the acceleration will reach a point we can't predict as AI begins to build itself. It's not surprising that underneath the excitement lies a frisson of anxiety as humans are forced to re-evaluate their own place in the m...