All of this is due in large part to the explosion of ChatGPT. In fact, six months after the chatbot’s release, the Future of Life Institute called for a pause in its development in an open letter, stating that its risks could not be controlled and even went so far as to say that it could pose a danger to us Civilization as we know it if systems were built that surpassed humans. More than 31,000 people have signed the letter, including industry representatives such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk.

ChatGPT broke all predictions. A study by UBS found that it was the fastest consumer application to reach 100 million users in just two months, although it has now been surpassed by Meta’s social network Threads. And at the enterprise level, it has a million licenses. According to PrimeWeb, as of April this year it had a total of more than 180.5 million monthly active users and in February the site was viewed by 1,625 million visitors.

“It has changed the way we interact with technology,” says Fernando Maldonado, an independent analyst. “Today, anyone can access AI without advanced knowledge or intermediaries, something that was previously reserved for specialists.”