things could get a lot worse, experts caution. AI could also make scandals like Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that harvested US voter data from social media ahead of the 2016 election, look quaint.

As demographic challenges grow, new study suggests more than half of jobs could be replaced by evolving AI. In a global analysis published in late March, Goldman Sachs estimated that generative AI could automate as many as 300 million full-time jobs.