When Sam Altman first told ABC News in March 2023 that he and his OpenAI colleagues were “a little bit scared” of just how good the artificial intelligence (AI) systems they were unleashing are, it sounded like a cautious scientist’s plea for sober guardrails.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a household name after the release of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model, ChatGPT.

From the beige boxes of the late ’90s to the scintillating aluminium and glass of today, I’ve seen our devices evolve from mere tools to extensions of ourselves. We’ve gone from lugging around chunky desktop towers to slipping elegant slabs of silicon into our back pockets.