Tabb Forum: “Forget AI world domination, for the moment – the real story is how it’s making us better. But are you worried AI will make a “tool” out of you? Andrew Dunn, Practice Lead at Streets Consulting, cuts through the hype, exploring AI’s immense power alongside its limitations, and looks at why human intelligence remains essential, even in an AI-enabled world. AI is everywhere in 2025. You’d be hard pushed to find an industry today where AI is not making an impact. You can’t even Google something without AI getting itself involved, and it has colonised your email and mobile phone. In November 2022, when Chat GPT burst onto the scene, Generative AI was used to perform parlour tricks, compared to current usage, and we marvelled at its usability. But its impact on the societal psyche was profound, ranging from curiosity, to excitement and even fears that human skills would be rendered redundant. But – AI’s inexorable march to world domination seems to be on hold. The natural human ability to handle complex tasks, to reason well, to use experience and intuition, has limited AI’s permeation. The grand realignment of human life has not happened – yet…”